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Stochastic dominance rules are applicable in many varied fields and, in particular, finance, economics, insurance, statistics, agriculture, and medicine. Due to space constraints, we will mention only a few such applications in this chapter.
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Levy, H. (1998). Applications of Stochastic Dominance Rules. In: Stochastic Dominance. Studies in Risk and Uncertainty, vol 12. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2840-8_8
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