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Stochastic Ordering of Order Statistics II

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Modeling Uncertainty

Part of the book series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science ((ISOR,volume 46))

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In this paper we survey some recent developments involving comparisons of order statistics and spacings in various stochastic senses.

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  1. Department of Statistics, University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

    Philip J. Boland

  2. Department of Statistics and Finance, University of Science and Technology, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, People’s Republic of China

    Taizhong Hu

  3. Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, USA

    Moshe Shaked

  4. Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720, USA

    J. George Shanthikumar

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  1. University of Arizona, USA

    Moshe Dror  & Ferenc Szidarovszky  & 

  2. Université de Montréal, France

    Pierre L’Ecuyer

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Boland, P.J., Hu, T., Shaked, M., Shanthikumar, J.G. (2002). Stochastic Ordering of Order Statistics II. In: Dror, M., L’Ecuyer, P., Szidarovszky, F. (eds) Modeling Uncertainty. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 46. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48102-2_24

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