Timeline for Minimum mean over all random variables subject to logarithm constraint
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| May 27, 2020 at 4:48 | vote | accept | Ted_B | ||
| May 27, 2020 at 4:47 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 27, 2020 at 3:50 | answer | added | Yuval Peres | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 27, 2020 at 3:47 | comment | added | Brendan McKay | Put $X=e^Y$. By Jensen's inequality, $E e^Y\ge e^{EY}=e^C$. Since concentrating $X$ at $e^C$ achieves that bound, it is the best. | |
| May 27, 2020 at 3:22 | review | First posts | |||
| May 27, 2020 at 4:30 | |||||
| May 27, 2020 at 3:21 | history | asked | Ted_B | CC BY-SA 4.0 |