When is one experiment 'always better than' another?

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D: The Statistician

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 515-537

  Goel, Prem K ^a   Ginebra, Josep ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Comparison of experiments; Location experiments; Loewner ordering; Optimal design; Statistical information; Stochastic ordering; Sufficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346957023     PISSN: 00390526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1467-9884.2003.00376.x     Document Type: Article

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