Some Reliability Applications of the Variability Ordering

DOI10.1287/OPRE.32.3.679MaRDI QIDQ3221241zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sheldon M. Ross, Zvi Schechner

Publication date 1984

Published in Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.32.3.679

zbMATH Keywords

branching processesconvex increasing functionsmajorizationpopulation survivalrandom sized sumsshock modelsstochastic dominancevariability ordering

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of renewal theory (reliability, demand theory, etc.) (60K10) Reliability and life testing (62N05)

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