Convexity of the median in the gamma distribution

Arkiv för Matematik - Tập 46 - Trang 1-6 - 2007
Christian Berg1, Henrik L. Pedersen2
1Department of Mathematics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2Department of Natural Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark

Tóm tắt

We show that the median m(x) in the gamma distribution with parameter x is a strictly convex function on the positive half-line.

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