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most citedAn extended Stein-type covariance identity for the Pearson family with applications to lower variance bounds

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stat.ME2011★ 11 cited

Strengthened Chernoff-type variance bounds

G. Afendras, N. Papadatos

Let be an absolutely continuous random variable from the integrated Pearson family and assume that has finite moments of any order. Using some properties of the associated…

stat.ME2011★ 6 cited

On matrix variance inequalities

G. Afendras, N. Papadatos

Olkin and Shepp (2005, J. Statist. Plann. Inference, vol. 130, pp. 351--358) presented a matrix form of Chernoff's inequality for Normal and Gamma (univariate) distributions. We ex…