Weighted sup-norm inequalities and their applications

DOI10.1080/03610929008830429zbMath0744.60018OpenAlexW2172264484MaRDI QIDQ3978045

Mark Brown

Publication date: 25 June 1992

Published in: Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610929008830429

zbMATH Keywords

inequalitiesreliabilityrenewal theorypartial orderingspatternsfault tree analysissurvivor functionfirst passage time distributionsexponential approximationsnon-negative random variablediscrete waiting time distributiontime reversible Markov processesweighted sup-norm inequalities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic) (62E17) Applications of renewal theory (reliability, demand theory, etc.) (60K10)

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