Journal of Inequalities and Applications 
Volume 6 (2001), Issue 4, Pages 451-462
doi:10.1155/S1025583401000273

An extension of Chebyshev’s inequality and its connection with Jensen’s inequality

Constantinp P. Niculescu

Department of Mathematics, University of Craiova, Craiova 1100, Romania

Received 24 November 1999; Revised 17 February 2000

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to show that Jensen’s Inequality and an extension of Chebyshev’s Inequality complement one another, so that they both can be formulated in a pairing form, including a second inequality, that provides an estimate for the classical one.