A note on variance bounds for a function of a pearson variate

Statistics and Risk Modeling

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 273-278

  Johnson, Roger W ^a  

^a CARLETON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chernoff's inequality; integration by parts; Pearson curves; secondary 26 D 10; variance inequality AMS 1980 classifications: Primary 60 E 15

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010994548     PISSN: 21931402     EISSN: 21967040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1524/strm.1993.11.3.273     Document Type: Article

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