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Some Comments on Stochastic Orders and Posets

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In this paper, we review some relations between partially ordered sets and stochastic orders. We focus our attention on analyzing if the property of being order-isomorphic is transferred from partially ordered sets to the stochastic orders generated by such partially ordered sets.

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The authors are indebted to the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and Principado de Asturias since this research is financed by Grants MTM2011-22993, MTM2013-45588-C3-1-P, MTM2015-63971-P, FC-15-GRUPIN14-101 and FC-15-GRUPIN14-142.

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López-Díaz, M.C., López-Díaz, M. (2018). Some Comments on Stochastic Orders and Posets. In: Gil, E., Gil, E., Gil, J., Gil, M. (eds) The Mathematics of the Uncertain. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 142. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73848-2_23

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