This is the repository for Lecture 05 of the Saint Louis University course SOC 4015/5050 - Quantitative Analysis. This lecture introduces a number of distributions, including the binomial, Poisson, ...

Unit 4: Discrete Random Variables Lecture 5: Probability mass functions and expectations A random variable is a variables whose value depends on the outcome of a probabilistic experiment. A discrete ...

This paper contains inequalities for the expectations of permutation-invariant concave functions and Schur-concave functions of the partial sums of nonnegative exchangeable random variables. Two ...