Quoqing Liu
Harbin Institute of Technology
Title: Moment bounds for truncated random variables.
Bounds involving moments of random variables arise naturally in many areas of probability, statistics, economics, and operations research. There is also a long history of studying them, back to works of Chebyshev. We first review and update some optimal bounds on the probability that a bounded random variable belongs in a set, given some of its moments. Then we present some new bounds on the expectation and variance of truncated random variable, motivated by works on European call option.

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