Stochastic orders and majorization of mean order statistics

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 704-712

  De La Cal, Jesús ^a   Cárcamo, Javier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Continuous majorization; Convex order; Discrete majorization; Increasing convex order; Order statistic; Schur convex function; Stochastic ordering

Indexed keywords

EID: 34047105720     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1158784940     Document Type: Article

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