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Continuous majorisation and randomness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Raymond J. Hickey
Raymond J. Hickey*
Affiliation:
New University of Ulster
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∗ Postal address: Department of Mathematics, New University of Ulster, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, BT52 1SA, Northern Ireland.
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Abstract

Majorisation is used to compare continuous distributions in terms of randomness. General results on randomness in the continuous case are given and these are used to investigate the connection between randomness and parameter values in some well-known families of distributions including the normal and gamma.

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Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , December 1984 , pp. 924 - 929
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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1984 

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