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Variation comparison between infinitely divisible distributions and the normal distribution

Probability 2023-05-11 v2

Abstract

Let XX be a random variable with finite second moment. We investigate the inequality: P{XE[X]Var(X)}P{Z1}P\{|X-E[X]|\le \sqrt{{\rm Var}(X)}\}\ge P\{|Z|\le 1\}, where ZZ is a standard normal random variable. We prove that this inequality holds for many familiar infinitely divisible continuous distributions including the Laplace, Gumbel, Logistic, Pareto, infinitely divisible Weibull, log-normal, student's tt and inverse Gaussian distributions. Numerical results are given to show that the inequality with continuity correction also holds for some infinitely divisible discrete distributions.

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@article{arxiv.2304.11459,
  title  = {Variation comparison between infinitely divisible distributions and the normal distribution},
  author = {Ping Sun and Ze-Chun Hu and Wei Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.11459},
  year   = {2023}
}
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