Supermodular Stochastic Orders and Positive Dependence of Random Vectors

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 86-101

  Shaked, Moshe ^a   Shanthikumar, J George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Upper and lower orthant orders; random vectors of minimums; common random values; majorization and Schur convexity; optimal assembly of reliability systems; minimal repair efforts; proportional hazard rates; optimal allocation of reliability items

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002949510     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmva.1997.1656     Document Type: Article

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