Pioneer Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 14, Number 1, 2015, Pages 63-71
This paper is available online at http://www.pspchv.com/content_PJMMS.html
2015 , 8 March Received
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: 26D15, 26D07.
Keywords and phrases: Steffensen’s inequality, Jensen’s inequality, variants, convex
functions.
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A NOTE ON SOME VARIANTS OF JENSEN
’
S INEQUALITY
MOHAMMED MUNIRU IDDRISU
1
, CHRISTOPHER ADJEI OKPOTI
2
and KAZEEM A. GBOLAGADE
3
1
Department of Mathematics
University for Development Studies
Navrongo Campus
P. O. Box 24, Navrongo, UE/R, Ghana
e-mail: immuniru@gmail.com
2
Department of Mathematics
University of Education, Winneba, Ghana
e-mail: caokpoti@yahoo.com
3
Department of Computer Library and Information Science
College of Information and Communication Technology
Kwara State University
Malete, Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria
e-mail: gkazy1@yahoo.com
Abstract
In this paper, we present a refined Steffensen’s inequality for convex
functions and further prove some variants of Jensen’s inequality using the
new Steffensen’s inequality.