The total time on test transform and the excess wealth stochastic orders of distributions

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 826-845

  Kochar, Subhash C ^a   Li, Xiaohu ^b   Shaked, Moshe ^c  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic inequality measure; Empirical TTT transform; Excess wealth order; HNBUE; Increasing convex and concave orders; Lorenz order; NBUE; Right spread order; Series and parallel systems; Test for 'more NBUE'

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SET THEORY; STATISTICAL TESTS; THEOREM PROVING;

STOCHASTIC ORDERS;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 0036950095     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/1037990955     Document Type: Article

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