Study of some measures of dependence between order statistics and systems

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 52-67

  Navarro, Jorge ^a   Balakrishnan, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coherent system; Correlation coefficient; Exchangeable distribution; Kendall's tau; Order statistic; Spearman's rho

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350118567     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: 10957243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2009.04.016     Document Type: Article

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