Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7543908 | Operations Research Letters | 2018 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
Sharp bounds in terms of the first few binomial moments are found for the probability of a union of events, when the random variable denoting the number of events that occur follows symmetric distribution. Connection between the bounds of this paper and the bounds from a special case of the binomial moment problem of Prekopa (1995) is shown. As a special case, bounds for the probability when the underlying probability distribution is unimodal-symmetric are also found.
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Authors
R. Swarnalatha, V. Kumaran,