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1994 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

The Extrema of the Expected Value of a Function of Independent Random Variables

verfasst von : Wassily Hoeffding

Erschienen in: The Collected Works of Wassily Hoeffding

Verlag: Springer New York

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The problem is considered of determining the least upper (or greatest lower) bound for the expected value EK(X1,…, Xn) of a given function K of n random variables X1, …, Xn under the assumption that X1, …, Xn are independent and each Xi has given range and satisfies k conditions of the form for i = 1, …, k. It is shown that under general conditions we need consider only discrete random variables Xi which take on at most k + 1 values.

Metadaten
Titel
The Extrema of the Expected Value of a Function of Independent Random Variables
verfasst von
Wassily Hoeffding
Copyright-Jahr
1994
Verlag
Springer New York
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0865-5_18