Some new results on stochastic comparisons of spacings from heterogeneous exponential distributions

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 272-281

  Kochar, Subhash ^a   Rojo, Javier ^b  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Hazard rate ordering; Likelihood ratio ordering; Majorization; Multivariate likelihood ratio ordering; Order statistics; Sample range; Schur functions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030295581     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmva.1996.0065     Document Type: Article

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