... Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1993.Journal of Inequalities and Applications 5There have been many attempts to express the covariance CovX, Y in terms of the cumulative distribution functions of the ... Hence, in the presence of no “useful information” about the meansand dependence, the coefficient min{1 − D, 1 − A1 − B}/4 reduces to the classical Gr¨usscoefficient 1/4.Proof of Theorem 3.1. ... y.Acknowledgments The authors are indebted to four anonymous referees, the editor in charge of the manuscript,Soo Hak Sung, and the Editor-in-Chief, Ravi P. Agarwal, for their constructive...