Revyakov, Mikhail - In: Journal of Multivariate Analysis 116 (2013) C, pp. 25-34
It is shown that starting with a certain meaningful problem of the type “ranking of populations”, a need arises to employ functions which we call “Schur-convex of 2nd order with respect to two variables”. These functions L(v1,v2,v3,…,vn) are symmetric, and they are characterized in...