Regular, Sample Path and Strong Stochastic Convexity: A Review

Several notions of stochastic convexity and concavity and their properties are described in this survey. The notion of sample path stochastic convexity is a refinement of the well used notion of stochastic ordering, and it can be used to construct, on a common probability space, random variables whi...

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Veröffentlicht in:Lecture Notes-Monograph Series. - Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1982. - 19(1991) vom: Jan., Seite 320-333
1. Verfasser: Shaked, Moshe (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Shanthikumar, J. George
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 1991
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Lecture Notes-Monograph Series
Schlagworte:Queueing theory Reliability theory Stochastic orderings Stochastic convexity Record values Branching processes Imperfect repair Mathematics Behavioral sciences Applied sciences