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A simple proof of Gauss's inequality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2014

Wilfred Perks
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Consider a continuous probability distribution of a variable x measured from its mean in units of its standard deviation, and suppose that deviations from the mean are taken irrespective of sign; let px represent the ordinate applicable to x (this ordinate is, of course, the sum of the original ordinates at + x and — x). We then have

, and we write .

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Journal of the Staple Inn Actuarial Society , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , July 1947 , pp. 38 - 41
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Copyright © Institute of Actuaries Students' Society 1947

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page 40 note * This is Winkler's extension of Gauss's inequality [Ed.].