AN INEQUALITY FOR PROBABILITY MOMENTS WITH APPLICATIONS

Authors
BARNES ER
Citation
Er. Barnes, AN INEQUALITY FOR PROBABILITY MOMENTS WITH APPLICATIONS, SIAM journal on discrete mathematics, 8(3), 1995, pp. 347-358
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Mathematics,Mathematics
Journal title
SIAM journal on discrete mathematics → ACNP
ISSN journal
08954801
Volume
8
Issue
3
Year of publication
1995
Pages
347 - 358
Database
ISI
SICI code
0895-4801(1995)8:3<347:AIFPMW>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
We give an inequality relating the range of a discrete probability dis tribution to certain determinants formed from moments of the distribut ion. We show applications of this inequality to problems in geometry, statistics, linear algebra, and combinatorial optimization.