Quantile plots, partial orders, and financial risk

American Statistician

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 239-246

  Kuczmarski, James G ^a   Rosenbaum, Paul R ^b  

^a Salomon Smith Barney   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Concave order; Dispersive order; Exploratory data analysis; Portfolio theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033433752     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1999.10474466     Document Type: Article

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