The s-convex orders among real random variables, with applications

Mathematical Inequalities and Applications

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 585-613

  Denuit, Michel ^a   Lefevre, Claude ^a   Shaked, Moshe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Convexity of higher order; Insurance; Queueing theory; s convex orders; s increasing convex orders; Tchebycheff systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001202825     PISSN: 13314343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7153/mia-01-56     Document Type: Article

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