Applications of a general composition theorem to the star order of distributions

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-9

  Bartoszewicz, Jarosław ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Characterization theorem; DP2 property; Order statistics; Partial orders; Total time on test transform; TP2 property

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032523280     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(97)00147-8     Document Type: Article

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