The discrete Mohr and Noll inequality with applications to variance bounds

Sankhya: The Indian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 162-189

  Afendras, G ^a   Papadatos, N ^a   Papathanasiou, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Discrete Pearson family; Mohr and Noll inequality; Poincar type variance bounds; UMVUE of log p in geometric distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 42249111232     PISSN: 09727671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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