| Article ID: | iaor19912083 |
| Country: | India |
| Volume: | 28 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 112 |
| End Page Number: | 117 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 1991 |
| Journal: | OPSEARCH |
| Authors: | Ramamurthy K.G. |
| Keywords: | statistics: distributions |
Consider the distribution obtained by truncating the falls of a normal distribution at a given fixed distance apart. In this paper it is shown that the variance of the truncated distribution is maximum when the truncation points are located symmetrically around the mean.