Timeline for Generalization of Gauss's inequality for not necessarily unimodal distributions?
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| May 25, 2012 at 1:35 | vote | accept | Tim | ||
| May 25, 2012 at 1:30 | comment | added | Douglas Zare | The distance between the point $y$ and the set $X$ is $d(y,X) = \inf_{x \in X} d(y,x)$. Then $r_X^2$ can be defined as the average of the square of the distance to $X$. This is no longer a quadratic polynomial so it can't be computed as easily as $(x-\mu)^2 + \sigma^2$, but the inequality still holds. | |
| May 25, 2012 at 1:01 | comment | added | Tim | Thanks! How is $r_x^2$ defined when x is a set? | |
| May 25, 2012 at 0:37 | history | answered | Douglas Zare | CC BY-SA 3.0 |