Thank you very much to all for all your responses. @Dr. Winsemius, E[f(X)] >=f(E(X)) if f is convex. Now we know |x| is convex function, so clearly in this scenario if we compute the expectation of the ((X1+X2+X3)/3-X4) and then take the absolute, then, we will get a lower bound of the expectation I want to find.
On Saturday, August 29, 2015 7:24 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: On Aug 29, 2015, at 11:35 AM, Shant Ch via R-help wrote: > Hello Dr. Berry, > > I know the theoretical side but note we are not talking about expectation of > sums rather expectation of ABSOLUTE value of the function > (X1/3+X2/3+X3/3-X4), i.e. E|X1/3+X2/3+X3/3-X4| , I don't think this can be > handled for log normal distribution by integrals by hand. > To Shnant Ch; I admit to puzzlement (being a humble country doctor). Can you explain why there should be a difference between the absolute value of an expectation for a sum of values from a function, in this case dlnorm, that is positive definite versus an expectation simply of the sum of such values? -- David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.