Some Inequalities for symmetric convex sets with applications

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 753-762

  Anderson, T W ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convex sets; Elliptically contoured distributions; Inequalities; Monotonicity of power functions; Unimodal functions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030494355     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1032894463     Document Type: Article

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