Bivariate dependence properties of order statistics

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 75-89

  Boland, Philip J ^a   Hollander, Myles ^c   Joag Dev, Kumar ^c   Kochar, Subhash ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Associated random variables; Counting processes; Exchangeability; Finite sampling problem; Order statistics; Positively quadrant dependent; Reliability; Right corner set increasing; Right tail increasing; Stochastically increasing; TP2 property

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029688658     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmva.1996.0005     Document Type: Article

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