Stochastic comparisons of spacings from restricted families of distributions

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 91-99

  Hu, Taizhong ^a   Wei, Ying ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

(Reversed) hazard rate order; Likelihood ratio order; Mean residual life order; Primary 60E15; Secondary 60K10; Spacings; Usual stochastic order

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038735898     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(01)00044-X     Document Type: Article

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