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Jensen's and Cantelli's inequalities with imprecise previsions

Pelessoni, Renato
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Vicig, Paolo
2023
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Periodico
FUZZY SETS AND SYSTEMS
Abstract
We investigate how basic probability inequalities can be extended to an imprecise framework, where (precise) probabilities and expectations are replaced by imprecise probabilities and lower/upper previsions. We focus on inequalities giving information on a single bounded random variable X, considering either convex/concave functions of X (Jensen's inequalities) or one-sided bounds such as (X>=c) or (X<=c) (Markov's and Cantelli's inequalities). As for the consistency of the relevant imprecise uncertainty measures, our analysis considers coherence as well as weaker requirements, notably 2-coherence, which proves to be often sufficient. Jensen-like inequalities are introduced, as well as a generalisation of a recent improvement to Jensen's inequality. Some of their applications are proposed: extensions of Lyapunov's inequality and inferential problems. After discussing upper and lower Markov's inequalities, Cantelli-like inequalities are proven with different degrees of consistency for the related lower/upper previsions. In the case of coherent imprecise previsions, the corresponding Cantelli's inequalities make use of Walley's lower and upper variances, generally ensuring better bounds.
DOI
10.1016/j.fss.2022.06.021
WOS
WOS:000962556500001
Archivio
https://hdl.handle.net/11368/3033018
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/2-s2.0-85133710667
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165011422002998
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open access
license:creative commons
license:copyright editore
license:creative commons
license uri:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
license uri:iris.pri02
license uri:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
FVG url
https://arts.units.it/request-item?handle=11368/3033018
Soggetti
  • Lower prevision

  • Coherence

  • 2-coherence

  • Jensen's inequality

  • Cantelli's inequaliti...

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