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          |  | Volume 7, Issue 3, Article 79 |  |   
          |  |  |  |  |  |  | A Variance Analog of Majorization and Some Associated Inequalities
 
 
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          |  |  | Authors: | Michael G. Neubauer, William Watkins, |  |   
          |  |  | Keywords: | Inequality, Symmetric polynomial, Majorization, Schur convex, Variance. |  |   
          |  |  | Date Received: | 03/03/06 |  |   
          |  |  | Date Accepted: | 21/03/06 |  |   
          |  |  | Subject Codes: | Pri: 26D05, 26D07; Sec: 15A42. |  |   
          |  |  | Editors: | Ingram Olkin, |  |   
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          |  |  | Abstract: |  We introduce a partial order, variance majorization, on   , which is analogous to the majorization order. A new class of monotonicity inequalities, based on variance majorization and analogous to Schur convexity, is developed. |   
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