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Generalizations of the Jensen-Steffensen and related inequalities

Milica Bakula, Marko Matić, Josip Pečarić (2009)

Open Mathematics

We present a couple of general inequalities related to the Jensen-Steffensen inequality in its discrete and integral form. The Jensen-Steffensen inequality, Slater’s inequality and a generalization of the counterpart to the Jensen-Steffensen inequality are deduced as special cases from these general inequalities.

Grüss-type bounds for covariances and the notion of quadrant dependence in expectation

Martín Egozcue, Luis García, Wing-Keung Wong, Ričardas Zitikis (2011)

Open Mathematics

We show that Grüss-type probabilistic inequalities for covariances can be considerably sharpened when the underlying random variables are quadrant dependent in expectation (QDE). The herein established covariance bounds not only sharpen the classical Grüss inequality but also improve upon recently derived Grüss-type bounds under the assumption of quadrant dependency (QD), which is stronger than QDE. We illustrate our general results with examples based on specially devised bivariate distributions...

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