A Hermite–Hadamard type inequality with applications to the estimation of moments of continuous random variables

Bogdan Gavrea

Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2015, vol. 254, issue C, 92-98

Abstract: In this paper we present a Hadamard-type inequality for quasi-convex functions with applications to the estimation of moments of continuous random variables with compact support. The main result obtained here generalizes the inequality obtained by Alomari et al. (2010).

Keywords: Hermite–Hadamard inequality; Moments of random variables; Quasi-convex functions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2014.12.129

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