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arxiv: 1110.0090 · v2 · pith:22P6MI2Xnew · submitted 2011-10-01 · 🧮 math.PR

Unified extension of variance bounds for integrated Pearson family

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keywords boundssomevarianceabsolutelybetterclasscontinuousderivatives
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We use some properties of orthogonal polynomials to provide a class of upper/lower variance bounds for a function $g(X)$ of an absolutely continuous random variable $X$, in terms of the derivatives of $g$ up to some order. The new bounds are better than the existing ones.

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