Stochastic inequalities: Papers from the AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference held in Seattle, Washington, July 1991
Editor: Moshe Shaked
Editor: Y. L. Tong
Lecture Notes--Monograph Series, Volume 22
Hayward, CA: Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1992.
412 pp.
Subjects:
60-06 (primary)62-06 (secondary)
Mathmatical Reviews number (MathSciNet): MR1228049
ISBN:0-940600-29-3
Copyright © 1992, Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
Inequalities for rare events in time-reversible Markov chains. I
David J. Aldous, and Mark Brown; 1-16
Skewness and kurtosis orderings: an introduction
Barry C. Arnold, and Richard A. Groeneveld; 17-24
Stochastic inequalities for a redundancy enhancement to a series or parallel system
Philip J. Boland; 25-32
Some remarks on a notion of positive dependence, association, and unbiased testing
Arthur Cohen, and H. B. Sackrowitz; 33-37
Further aspects of the comparison of two groups of ranked objects by matching in pairs
H. A. David, and Jingyu Liu; 38-49
Inequalities for the parameters $\lambda(F),\mu(F)$ with applications in nonparametric statistics
Crisanto Dorado, and Myles Hollander; 50-65
Orderings arising from expected extremes, with an application
Peter J. Downey, and Robert S. Maier; 66-75
A group action on covariances with applications to the comparison of linear normal experiments
Morris L. Eaton; 76-90
The role of a module in the failure of a system
Emad El-Neweihi, and Jayaram Sethuraman; 91-99
Extreme order statistics for a sequence of dependent random variables
Joseph Glaz; 100-115
Partitioning inequalities in probability and statistics
Theodore P. Hill; 116-132
Multivariate majorization by positive combinations
Harry Joe, and Joseph Verducci; 159-181
Covariance spaces for measures on polyhedral sets
J. H. B. Kemperman, and Morris Skibinsky; 182-195
Hyperbolic-concave functions and Hardy-Littlewood maximal functions
Robert P. Kertz, and Uwe Rösler; 196-210
Lower bounds on multivariate distributions with preassigned marginals
S. Kotz, and J. P. Seeger; 211-218
Dependence of stable random variables
Mei Ling Ting Lee, Svetlozar T. Rachev, and Gennady Samorodnitsky; 219-234
A multivariate stochastic ordering by the mixed descending factorial moments with applications
Claude Lefèvre, and Philippe Picard; 235-252
Allocation through stochastic Schur convexity and stochastic transposition increasingness
Liwan Liyanage, and J. George Shanthikumar; 253-273
Extremal problems for probability distributions: a general method and some examples
L. Mattner; 274-283
Concentration inequalities for multivariate distributions. II. Elliptically contoured distributions
Michael D. Perlman; 284-308
Inequalities on expectations based on the knowledge of multivariate moments
András Prékopa; 309-331
On FKG-type and permanental inequalities
Yosef Rinott, and Michael Saks; 332-342
Optimal stopping values and prophet inequalities for some dependent random variables
Yosef Rinott, and Ester Samuel-Cahn; 343-358
Some applications of monotone transformations in statistics
Allan R. Sampson; 359-370
Secretary problems as a source of benchmark bounds
Stephen M. Samuels; 371-387
Comparison of experiments of some multivariate distributions with a common marginal
Moshe Shaked, and Y. L. Tong; 388-398
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