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I normally have problem with proving inequalities since there are many different inequalities and I'm usually confused on how to choose a proper one and focus on that to get my problem solved. Here is one of them that I thought Jensen's inequality should solve it but I've not been able to solve it yet.

Suppose $E|X|^k$ < $\infty$ show that for any j and k where $0 < j < k$ we have:

$ (E|X|^j)^k \le (E|X|^k)^j $

I think since $E|X|^k$ < $\infty$ and $ j < k $, then we can assume $E|X|^j$ < $\infty$.

I appreciate your hints.

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Hint: Apply Jensen inequality $c(\mathbb E(Y))\leqslant\mathbb E(c(Y))$ to the nonnegative random variable $Y=|X|^j$ and the convex function $c:\mathbb R_+\to\mathbb R$ defined by $c(t)=|t|^{k/j}$ for every $t$ in $\mathbb R_+$.

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    Thank you very much...I think I need to solve more exam$p$les to become comfortable with inequalities. I'm always confused how to choose and how to use them. Thanks again.2012-10-26