One purpose of this paper is to study the relationship of the dilation order ([less-than-or-equals, slant]dil) to two other stochastic orders: the mean residual life order ([less-than-or-equals, slant]mrl) and the increasing convex order ([less-than-or-equals, slant]icx). Regarding these orders,...

In this note we compare bivariate additive models with respect to their Pearson correlation coefficients, Kendall’s τ concordance coefficients, and Blomqvist β medial correlation coefficients. The conditions that enable the comparisons involve variability stochastic orders such as the...

In this note we provide new results of interest in the portfolio choice problem when the risky opportunities are correlated: for a general vector (X <Subscript>1</Subscript>, X <Subscript>2</Subscript>,..., X <Subscript> n </Subscript>) of risky opportunities we give new conditions for stochastic comparison among different portfolios choices and new necessary and...</subscript></subscript></subscript>

Different sufficient conditions for stochastic comparisons between random vectors have been described in the literature. In particular, conditions for the comparison of random vectors having the same copula, i.e., the same dependence structure, may be found in Müller and Scarsini (2001). Here...

The problem of the preservation of non-parametric life distributions classes under addition of life lengths has been extensively studied in literature. In literature, however, independence among the random life lengths is often assumed. Here we show that for the HNBUE life distributions class...

A class of generalized bivariate Marshall-Olkin distributions, which includes as special cases the Marshall-Olkin bivariate exponential distribution and the Marshall-Olkin type distribution due to Muliere and Scarsini (1987) [19] are examined in this paper. Stochastic comparison results are...

In this paper, we introduce a new multivariate stochastic order that compares random vectors in a direction which is determined by a unit vector, generalizing the previous upper and lower orthant orders. The main properties of this new order, together with its relationships with other...