文档介绍：Springer Series in Statistics
Advisors:
P. Bickel, P. Diggle, S. Fienberg, U. Gather,
I. Olkin, S. Zeger
Moshe Shaked
J. e Shanthikumar
Stochastic Orders
Moshe Shaked
Department of Mathematics
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
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J. e Shanthikumar
Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2006927724
ISBN-10: 0-387-32915-3
ISBN-13: 978-0387-32915-4
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Preface
Stochastic orders and inequalities have been used during the last 40 years,
at an accelerated rate, in many diverse areas of probability and statistics.
Such areas include reliability theory, queuing theory, survival analysis, biology,
economics, insurance, actuarial science, operations research, and management
science. The purpose of this book is to collect