Dispersion-type variability orders

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 305-334

  Belzunce, Félix ^a   Hu, Taizhong ^b   Khaledi, Baha Eldin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

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

^c RAZI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CLOSURE PROPERTY; ORDER STATISTICS; RIGHT SPREADS; STOCHASTIC ORDER;

DISPERSIONS;

EID: 0012534926     PISSN: 02699648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0269964803173020     Document Type: Article

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