Dispersivity and stochastic majorization

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 275-278

  Alzaid, Abdulhamid A ^a   Proschan, Frank ^b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

dispersive function; Dispersive ordering; majorization; order statistics; Schur functions; stochastic majorization; stochastic ordering; variability ordering

Indexed keywords

EID: 38249013891     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-7152(92)90034-3     Document Type: Article

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