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Some Auxiliary Results — Monotonicity Properties of Probability Distributions

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Multiple Statistical Decision Theory: Recent Developments

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It is very important to study the monotonicity properties of distributions in order to obtain inequalities useful in statistical inference. Some monotonicity properties of distributions are well known and have proved to be very useful. During the last decade, more concepts have been introduced and used by several authors in multiple decision problems.

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  1. Department of Statistics, Purdue University, 47907, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

    Shanti S. Gupta

  2. Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Deng-Yuan Huang

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Gupta, S.S., Huang, DY. (1981). Some Auxiliary Results — Monotonicity Properties of Probability Distributions. In: Multiple Statistical Decision Theory: Recent Developments. Lecture Notes in Statistics, vol 6. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5925-1_1

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