A note on stochastic ordering of order statistics

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 785-789

  Ma, Chunsheng ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Heterogeneous sample; Homogeneous sample; k out of n system; Order statistics; Poisson binomial distribution; Stochastic ordering

Indexed keywords

STATISTICS;

HETEROGENEOUS SAMPLE; HOMOGENEOUS SAMPLE; ORDER STATISTICS; POISSON BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTIC ORDERING;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 0031220558     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021900200101433     Document Type: Article

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