TY - JOUR AU - Bias, Peter AU - Hedman, Shawn AU - Rose, David PY - 2010 TI - Boundary Distributions with Respect to Chebyshev's Inequality JF - Journal of Mathematics and Statistics VL - 6 IS - 1 DO - 10.3844/jmssp.2010.47.51 UR - https://thescipub.com/abstract/jmssp.2010.47.51 AB - Variables whose distributions achieve the boundary value of Chebyshev’s inequality are characterized and it is found that non-constant variables with this property are symmetric discrete with at most three values. Nevertheless, the bound of Chebyshev’s inequality remains optimal for the class of continuous variables.