Journal of Inequalities and Applications
Volume 6 (2001), Issue 4, Pages 451-462
doi:10.1155/S1025583401000273
An extension of Chebyshev’s inequality and its connection with Jensen’s inequality
Department of Mathematics, University of Craiova, Craiova 1100, Romania
Received 24 November 1999; Revised 17 February 2000
Copyright © 2001 Constantinp P. Niculescu. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to show that Jensen’s Inequality and an extension of Chebyshev’s Inequality complement one another, so that they both can be formulated in a pairing form, including a second inequality, that provides an estimate for the classical one.