Comparing sums of exchangeable Bernoulli random variables

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 285-310

  Lefèvre, Claude ^a   Utev, Sergey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Branching process; Catch recapture sampling; Epidemic process; Stochastic orderings; Tail distributions; Urn model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041115286     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021900200099733     Document Type: Article

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