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In this article we give some improvements and generalizations of the famous Jensen's and Jensen-Mercer inequalities for twice differentiable functions, where convexity property of the target function is not assumed in advance. They…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Slavko Simic

Since its original formulation, Jensen's inequality has played a fundamental role across mathematics, statistics, and machine learning, with its probabilistic version highlighting the nonnegativity of the so-called Jensen's gap, i.e., the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Marcin Mazur , Tadeusz Dziarmaga , Piotr Kościelniak , Łukasz Struski

The Jensen inequality is a widely used tool in a multitude of fields, such as for example information theory and machine learning. It can be also used to derive other standard inequalities such as the inequality of arithmetic and geometric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Gerhard Wunder , Benedikt Groß , Rick Fritschek , Rafael F. Schaefer

Convex analysis is fundamental to proving inequalities that have a wide variety of applications in economics and mathematics. In this paper we provide Jensen-type inequalities for functions that are, intuitively, "very" convex. These…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Bar Light

In this paper we study two classes of imprecise previsions, which we termed convex and centered convex previsions, in the framework of Walley's theory of imprecise previsions. We show that convex previsions are related with a concept of…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Renato Pelessoni , Paolo Vicig

We develop a new framework for the Jensen-type inequalities that allows us to deal with functions not necessarily convex and Borel measures not necessarily positive.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2012-07-31 Constantin P. Niculescu , Cătălin Irinel Spiridon

In this paper, using some aspects of convex functions, we refine discrete Jensen's inequality via weight functions. Then, using these results, we give some applications in different abstract spaces and obtain some new interesting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jamal Rooin

Inequalities play an important role in pure and applied mathematics. In particular, Jensen's inequality, one of the most famous inequalities, plays a main role in the study of the existence and uniqueness of initial and boundary value…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Yamilet Quintana , José M. Rodríguez , José M. Sigarreta Almira

In this paper we develop a general method for improving Jensen-type inequalities for convex and, even more generally, for piecewise convex functions. Our main result relies on the linear interpolation of a convex function. As a consequence,…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-10-06 Daeshik Choi , Mario Krnić , Josip Pecarić

We study a family of inequalities on pairs of measure spaces involving functions defined on product domains. Our main result establishes a Jensen-type inequality under a general product-measure framework, extending classical inequalities…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-09 P. D. Johnson , R. N. Mohapatra , Shankhadeep Mondal

It is well known that the traditional Jensen inequality is proved by lower bounding the given convex function, $f(x)$, by the tangential affine function that passes through the point $(E\{X\},f(E\{X\}))$, where $E\{X\}$ is the expectation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Neri Merhav

This article presents a theoretical study of uncertainty functionals on general measurable spaces. These functionals are fundamental in experimental design and global sensitivity analysis, where they are used to quantify variability and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Julien Bect , Xujia Zhu

This paper proposes a new sharpened version of the Jensen's inequality. The proposed new bound is simple and insightful, is broadly applicable by imposing minimum assumptions, and provides fairly accurate result in spite of its simple form.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-26 J. G. Liao , Arthur Berg

Jensen's inequality, attributed to Johan Jensen -- a Danish mathematician and engineer noted for his contributions to the theory of functions -- is a ubiquitous result in convex analysis, providing a fundamental lower bound for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Sambhab Mishra

In this paper we point out a converse result of the celebrated Jensen inequality for differentiable convex mappings of several variables and apply it to counterpart well-known analytic inequalities. Applications to Shannon's and Renyi's…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sever Silvestru Dragomir

The Jensen's inequality plays a crucial role in the analysis of time-delay and sampled-data systems. Its conservatism is studied through the use of the Gr\"{u}ss Inequality. It has been reported in the literature that fragmentation (or…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-04-06 Corentin Briat

In this work, we investigate the question of how knowledge about expectations $\mathbb{E}(f_i(X))$ of a random vector $X$ translate into inequalities for $\mathbb{E}(g(X))$ for given functions $f_i$, $g$ and a random vector $X$ whose…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-27 André M. Timpanaro

Jensen's inequality is ubiquitous in measure and probability theory, statistics, machine learning, information theory and many other areas of mathematics and data science. It states that, for any convex function $f\colon K \to \mathbb{R}$…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Ilja Klebanov

In this paper we deal with improvement of Jensen, Jensen-Steffensen's and Jensen's functionals related inequalities for uniformly convex, phi-convex and superquadratic functions.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Shoshana Abramovich

This paper gives upper and lower bounds on the gap in Jensen's inequality, i.e., the difference between the expected value of a function of a random variable and the value of the function at the expected value of the random variable. The…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-08-21 Xiang Gao , Meera Sitharam , Adrian E. Roitberg
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