Slepian's Inequality Via the Central Limit Theorem.

Abstract

A partial ordering of distributions is defined which is preserved under convolutions and scale transformations. Some properties of this partial ordering are developed and then used to give a new argument for Slepian's (1962) inequality.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 05, 1986
Accession Number
ADA171205

Entities

People

  • Fred W. Huffer

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • California
  • Contracts
  • Convolution
  • Covariance
  • Discrete Distribution
  • Gaussian Noise
  • Inequalities
  • Military Research
  • New York
  • Normal Distribution
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Statistics
  • United States
  • United States Government

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Graph Algorithms and Convex Optimization.
  • Statistical inference.