Converse Poincaré-type inequalities for convex functions

S. G. Bobkov and C. Houdré

Statistics & Probability Letters, 1997, vol. 34, issue 1, 37-42

Abstract: Converse Poincaré-type inequalities are obtained within the class of smooth convex functions. This is, in particular, applied to the double exponential distribution.

Keywords: Poincare; inequality; Double; exponential; distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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