SOME INEQUALITIES FOR SYMMETRICAL CONVEX-SETS WITH APPLICATIONS

Authors
ANDERSON TW
Citation
Tw. Anderson, SOME INEQUALITIES FOR SYMMETRICAL CONVEX-SETS WITH APPLICATIONS, Annals of statistics, 24(2), 1996, pp. 753-762
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Statistic & Probability","Statistic & Probability
Journal title
Annals of statistics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00905364
Volume
24
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
753 - 762
Database
ISI
SICI code
0090-5364(1996)24:2<753:SIFSCW>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
Under appropriate conditions the probability of a convex symmetric set decreases as the spread or scatter of the distribution increases. Thi s paper studies the conditions when the random vector has a symmetric unimodal distribution.