A characterization of discrete unimodality with applications to variance upper bounds

DOI10.1007/BF00774775zbMath0816.62012MaRDI QIDQ1335364

John W. jun. Seaman, Dean M. Young, Sharon E. Navard

Publication date: 3 July 1995

Published in: Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

convexityvariance boundscharacterization of discrete unimodality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10)

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