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Exact bounds on the truncated-tilted mean, with applications

Probability 2012-05-24 v2 Statistics Theory Statistics Theory

Abstract

Exact upper bounds on the Winsorised-tilted mean of a random variable in terms of its first two moments are given. Such results are needed in work on nonuniform Berry--Esseen-type bounds for general nonlinear statistics. As another application, optimal upper bounds on the Bayes posterior mean are provided. Certain monotonicity properties of the tilted mean are also presented.

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@article{arxiv.1103.3683,
  title  = {Exact bounds on the truncated-tilted mean, with applications},
  author = {Iosif Pinelis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.3683},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

Proposition 2.6(II) is slightly generalized

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