The best constant in the Rosenthal inequality for nonnegative random variables

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 367-376

  Ibragimov, R ^a   Sharakhmetov, Sh ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TASHKENT STATE UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Uzbekistan)

Author keywords

Best constant; Moment inequalities; Nonnegative random variables

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012979836     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(01)00134-1     Document Type: Article

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