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Mills' ratio: Reciprocal convexity and functional inequalities

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2013-05-06 v4 Probability

Abstract

This note contains sufficient conditions for the probability density function of an arbitrary continuous univariate distribution, supported on (0,),(0,\infty), such that the corresponding Mills ratio to be reciprocally convex (concave). To illustrate the applications of the main results, the reciprocal convexity (concavity) of Mills ratio of the gamma distribution is discussed in details.

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@article{arxiv.1010.3267,
  title  = {Mills' ratio: Reciprocal convexity and functional inequalities},
  author = {Árpád Baricz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.3267},
  year   = {2013}
}

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6 pages

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