Stochastic orders for spacings of heterogeneous exponential random variables

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 69-83

  Kochar, Subhash C ^a   Korwar, Ramesh ^b  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Hazard rate ordering; Likelihood ratio ordering; Log convex density; Majorization; Mixture distribution; Order statistics; Schur functions; Stochastic ordering; Successive sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030119950     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmva.1996.0022     Document Type: Article

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