Order relations of measures when avoiding decreasing sets

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 165-175

  Collet, Pierre ^a   López, F Javier ^b   Martínez, Servet ^c  

^a CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Markov chain; Quasistationary measure; Stochastic comparison

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345868305     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2003.07.012     Document Type: Article

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