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Ordered random variables

  • Saralees NadarajahEmail author
  • Emmanuel Afuecheta
  • Stephen Chan
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Abstract

Given two random variables, what effect does a linear ordering have? We answer this question for more than thirty commonly known families of distributions, including the arcsine, Cauchy, exponential, Fréchet, Gumbel, half normal, logistic, lognormal, Lomax, normal, Pareto, uniform and Weibull distributions. A real data application is given.

Keywords

Distributions Rainfall Stochastic ordering 
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Acknowledgements

The authors thank the editor and the referee for careful reading and comments.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.University of ManchesterManchesterUK
  2. 2.American University of SharjahSharjahUAE

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