Orthant orderings of discrete random vectors

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 193-205

  Dyckerhoff, Rainer ^a   Mosler, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bivariate risk aversion; Comparison of empirical distribution functions; Decision under risk; Dependence ordering; Multivariate stochastic orders

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031571475     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3758(96)00184-x     Document Type: Article

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