Front Cover and Title Pages

i-iv

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Preface

v-vi

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Acknowledgments

vii

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Contributors

viii-ix

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Lectures and Speakers at the Workshop

x-xii

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Contents

xiii-xiv

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Remarks on a random surface

D. B. Abraham, and C. M. Newman; 1-6

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Stochastic order and martingale dynamics in multivariate life length models: a review

Elja Arjas, and Ilkka Norros; 7-24

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Preservation and attenuation of inequality as measured by the Lorenz order

Barry C. Arnold; 25-37

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Lorenz ordering of order statistics

Barry C. Arnold, and José A. Villaseñor; 38-47

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Stochastic orders and their application to a unified approach to various concepts of dependence and association

Reinhard Bergmann; 48-73

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Second order Bonferroni-type, product-type and setwise probability inequalities

Henry W. Block, Timothy Costigan, and Allan R. Sampson; 74-94

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Optimal stopping of life-testing: use of stochastic orderings in the case of conditionally exponential lifetimes

Cristina Costantini, and Fabio Spizzichino; 95-103

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Multivariate probability inequalities: convolution theorems, composition theorems, and concentration inequalities

Morris L. Eaton, and Michael D. Perlman; 104-122

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Stochastic orderings in reliability

Karl-Walter Gaede; 123-140

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Representation theorems for measures of location and for measures of dispersion

Alessandra Giovagnoli, and Giuliana Regoli; 141-156

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Orderings of risks and their actuarial applications

Wolf-Rüdiger Heilmann, and Klaus J. Schröter; 157-173

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Applications of likelihood ratio orderings in economics

Ian Jewitt; 174-189

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Stochastic orders in welfare economics

Michel Le Breton; 190-206

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Ordering regression models of Gaussian processes

Harald Luschgy; 207-230

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Multivariate stochastic orderings and generating cones of functions

Albert W. Marshall; 231-247

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Stochastic ordering for Markov processes on partially ordered spaces with applications to queueing networks

William A. Massey; 248-260

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Some theory of stochastic dominance

Karl Mosler, and Marco Scarsini; 261-284

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Bounds for distributions with multivariate marginals

Ludger Rüschendorf; 285-310

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Repair policies and stochastic order

Thomas H. Savits; 311-319

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Regular, sample path and strong stochastic convexity: a review

Moshe Shaked, and J. George Shanthikumar; 320-333

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Stochastic orders and comparison of experiments

Erik Torgersen; 334-371

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Expectation inequalities from convex geometry

Richard A. Vitale; 372-379

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Concentration indices and concentration curves

Shlomo Yitzhaki, and Ingram Olkin; 380-392

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