Stochastic comparisons of parallel systems of heterogeneous exponential components

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 203-211

  Dykstra, Richard ^a   Kochar, Subhash ^b   Rojo, Javier ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersive ordering; Hazard rate ordering; Likelihood ratio ordering; Majorization; Multivariate likelihood ratio ordering; Reversed hazard rate ordering; Schur functions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031574571     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(97)00058-X     Document Type: Article

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