Some new results on covariances involving order statistics from dependent random variables

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 308-316

  Wang, Wenjin ^b   Sarkar, Sanat K ^b   Bai, Zhidong ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Dependent random variables; Mixed covariances; Order statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 16144367491     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmva.1996.0067     Document Type: Article

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