Recommended Citation
Postprint version. Published in Probability Theory and Related Fields, Volume 86, Issue 1, March 1, 1990, pages 53-62.
Copyright © 1990 Springer.
NOTE: At the time of publication, the author Theodore P. Hill was not yet affiliated with Cal Poly.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01207513.
Abstract
Sharp lower bounds are found for the concentration of a probability distribution as a function of the expectation of any given convex symmetric function φ. In the case φ(x)=(x-c)2, where c is the expected value of the distribution, these bounds yield the classical concentration-variance inequality of Lévy. An analogous sharp inequality is obtained in a similar linear search setting, where a sharp lower bound for the concentration is found as a function of the maximum probability swept out from a fixed starting point by a path of given length.
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Mathematics
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