On upper bounds for the variance of functions of random variables with weighted distributions

DOI10.1134/S1995080216040089zbMath1347.62030MaRDI QIDQ323628

Faranak Goodarzi, Mohammad Amini-Dehak, Gholam Reza Mohtashami Borzadaran

Publication date: 10 October 2016

Published in: Lobachevskii Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

log-concaveChernoff inequalityvariance boundsincreasing failure ratesize-biased distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10)

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