ON SOME INEQUALITIES FOR THE EXPECTATION AND VARIANCE

ON SOME INEQUALITIES FOR THE EXPECTATION AND VARIANCE

Some elementary inequalities for the expectation and variance of a continuous random variable whose probability density function is de ned on a nite interval are obtained by using an identity due to P. Cerone for the Chebyshev functional and some standard results from the theory of inequali- ties. Thus some mistakes in the literatures are corrected.

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