Monotonicity of ratios involving incomplete gamma functions with actuarial applications

Journal of Inequalities in Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Furman, Edward ^a   Zitikis, Ričardas ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gamma function; Monotonicity; Tail expectations; Weighted distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249096646     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14435756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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