Paper 1, Section II, J
Part II, 2012
Carefully state and prove Jensen's inequality for a convex function , where is an interval. Assuming that is strictly convex, give necessary and sufficient conditions for the inequality to be strict.
Let be a Borel probability measure on , and suppose has a strictly positive probability density function with respect to Lebesgue measure. Let be the family of all strictly positive probability density functions on with respect to Lebesgue measure such that . Let be a random variable with distribution . Prove that the mapping
has a unique maximiser over , attained when almost everywhere.