Monotonicity of the Variance Under Truncation and Variations of Jensen's Inequality

DOI10.1214/aoms/1177697619zbMath0204.53102OpenAlexW1997483036MaRDI QIDQ5604319

William J. Studden, Yuan-Shih Chow

Publication date: 1969

Published in: The Annals of Mathematical Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aoms/1177697619

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