Generalized stochastic convexity and stochastic orderings of mixtures

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 275-291

  Denuit, Michel ^a   Lefèvre, Claude ^a   Utev, Sergey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; MIXTURES;

CONVEX FUNCTIONS; EPIDEMIC THEORY; POWER FUNCTIONS; S-CONVEX FUNCTIONS; STOCHASTIC ORDERINGS; SYSTEM OF FUNCTIONS; TOTALLY POSITIVE;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

EID: 0346026484     PISSN: 02699648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0269964899133023     Document Type: Article

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