SOME INEQUALITIES FOR STARSHAPED AND CONVEX FUNCTIONS,

Abstract

Necessary and sufficient conditons are obtained on a function G of bounded variation such that phi(integral sign x(t)dG(t)) = or < integral sign phi(x(t))dG(t) for all increasing x for which x(t sub 0) = 0 for some specified t sub 0, and all convex phi for which phi(0) = 0; the conditions are otherwise independent of phi and x. Similar results are obtained when the inequality is reversed. Necessary and sufficient conditions for both directions of inequality are also obtained when phi is starshaped. The relationship to previous results is sketched. Applications to statistical tolerance limits are indicated. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0660072

Entities

People

  • Albert W. Marshall
  • Frank Proschan
  • Richard E. Barlow

Organizations

  • Boeing

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Inequalities
  • Integrals

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Analytical Mechanics
  • Statistical inference.