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  Volume 4, Issue 5, Article 96
 
Some Remarks on Lower Bounds of Chebyshev's Type for Half-lines

    Authors: F.D. Lesley, V.I. Rotar,  
    Keywords: Inequality of Chebyshev's type.  
    Date Received: 02/10/03  
    Date Accepted: 31/10/03  
    Subject Codes:

62E20,60E05.

 
    Editors: Alexander M. Rubinov (1940-2006),  
 
    Abstract:

We prove that for any r.v. $ X$ such that $ E{X}=0, E{X^{2}}=1,  $ and $ E{X^{4}}=mu $, and for any $ varepsilon geq 0$

   
$displaystyle P(Xgeq varepsilon )geq frac{K_{0}}{mu }-frac{K_{1}{sqrt{mu }} varepsilon +frac{K_{2}}{mu sqrt{mu }varepsilon ,$

where absolute constants $ K_{0}=2sqrt{3}-3approx0.464,  K_{1}=1.397,   $and$   K_{2}=0.0231$. The constant $ K_{0text{}}$is sharp for $ mu geq frac{3}{sqrt{3}+1}approx 1.09$. Some other bounds and examples are given.

         
       
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