 Two-term bounds for Mills ratio (source code)

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= Two-term bounds for Mills ratio
{title2=$x^{-1}-x^{-3}<r(x)<x^{-1}$}

Two successive <integrations by parts> of the <standard normal density> tail give positive remainder integrals establishing these strict inequalities for every $x>0$. The lower bound can be negative at small $x$ without invalidating the inequality.

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