Popoviciu's inequality

English

Etymology

Named after Romanian mathematician Tiberiu Popoviciu (1906–1975).

Proper noun

Popoviciu's inequality

  1. (mathematical analysis) A particular inequality about convex functions, similar to Jensen's inequality.
  2. (probability theory) An upper bound on the variance of any bounded probability distribution.

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