Some new results on stochastic comparisons of parallel systems

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1123-1128

  Khaledi, Baha Eldin ^a,b   Kochar, Subhash ^a,b  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Dispersive ordering; Exponential distribution; Hazard rate ordering; Majorization; P larger ordering; Schur functions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034336892     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1014843091     Document Type: Article

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