On Karlin's conjecture for random replacement sampling plans

DOI10.1214/AOS/1176346809MaRDI QIDQ1079893zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Publication date 1984

Published in The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176346809

combinatorial inequalities, partial ordering componentwise monotonicity Karlin's conjecture ordering of expectations random replacement schemes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial inequalities (05A20) Foundations of stochastic processes (60G05) Sampling theory, sample surveys (62D05)

Review text

In ibid. 2, 1065-1094 (1974; Zbl 0306.62004) \textit{S. Karlin} introduced the concept of random replacement schemes and conjectured that the componentwise monotonicity of the replacement probabilities (condition A) is equivalent to a corresponding ordering of expectations of all functions \(\phi\) from a certain class \({\mathcal C}_ K\) (condition B). In this paper it is shown that A implies B for sample sizes \(n\leq 5\) and - provided the sample space is sufficiently large - also for \(n\geq 6\). By a counterexample it is shown that \({\mathcal C}_ K\) is not suitable for A being implied by B, i.e. one direction of Karlin's conjecture is disproved.

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