An analytic proof of the preservation of the up-shifted likelihood ratio order under convolutions

Stochastic Processes and their Applications

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 55-61

  Hu, Taizhong ^a   Zhu, Zegang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

60E15; Hazard rate order; Likelihood ratio order; Reversed hazard rate order

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011362939     PISSN: 03044149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4149(01)00089-8     Document Type: Article

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