Monday, 21 July 2014

integration - How to show that intlimits+inftyinfty(n1)Phi(x)n2phi(x)2dx? decreases in n?



I was working on a research project that involves taking the integral of



(n1)+Φ(x)n2ϕ(x)2dx,

where Φ(.) is the CDF for standard normal, ϕ the PDF, α>0 and nZ and n>3.




Eventually, I wish to show that the whole expression decreases monotonically as n increases.



Any help on this will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!


Answer



An integration by parts using u=φ and v=(n1)φΦn2, hence u(x)=xφ(x) and v=Φn1, shows that the nth term is An=Rxφ(x)Φ(x)n1dx=0xφ(x)Bn(Φ(x))dx,

where Bn(t)=tn1(1t)n1.

For every t in (12,1) and every n3, Bn(t)Bn1(t)=t(1t)((1t)n3tn3)0,
hence AnAn1, that is, the sequence (An)n2 is non increasing.


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