On Preinvexity For Stochastic Processes

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce preinvex and invex stochastic processes, and we provide related well known Hermite-Hadamard integral inequality for preinvex stochastic processes by considering their left derivative, right derivative, and derivative processes.

Keywords

• convex stochastic processes,mean-square differentiable,mean square integral,Hermite-Hadamard inequality,preinvex functions,invex functions

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