The mean, median, and mode of unimodal distributions: A characterization

Theory of Probability and its Applications

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 210-223

  Basu, S ^a   Dasgupta, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

unimodality; Connected; Convex; Ellipsoid; Mean; Mean median mode inequality; Median; Mode; Moment problem; Sphere; Star unimodality; Uniform distribution; Unimodality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030344094     PISSN: 0040585X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0040585X97975447     Document Type: Article

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