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Stochastic Orderings of Order Statistics of Independent Random Variables with Different Scale Parameters |
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| Authors: | Baha-Eldin Khaledi Subhash Kochar |
| Institution: | 1. Department of Statistics , Shahid Beheshti University , Tehran, Iran;2. Razi University , Kermanshah, Iran bkhaledi@hotmail.com;4. Department of Mathematics and Statistics , Portland State University , Portland, Oregon, USA |
| Abstract: | This is an article on recent results on stochastic comparisons of order statistics of n independent random variables differing in their scale parameters. Most of the results obtained so far are for the Weibull and the Gamma distributions. |
| Keywords: | Hazard rate ordering Majorization p-larger ordering Proportional hazards family Schur functions |