Some results are described in this paper which arise from the philosophical study of the relationship between scientific activity and truth acquisition. A definition of truth possession is given and it is shown that, under a certain assumption, every scientific experiment increases on the...

The supermodular and the symmetric supermodular stochastic orders have been cursorily studied in previous literature. In this paper we study these orders more thoroughly. First we obtain some basic properties of these orders. We then apply these results in order to obtain comparisons of random...

One of the most useful tools for handling multivariate distributions with givenunivariatemarginals is the copula function. Using it, any multivariate distribution function can be represented in a way that emphasizes the separate roles of the marginals and of the dependence structure. Liet...

Some partial orderings of positively dependent exchangeable random variables are introduced. The interrelations among them, the inequalities which follow from them and two models which yield such partial orderings are then discussed. Particular examples include ordering multivariate normal, t,...

One of the most useful tools for handling multivariate distributions with givenunivariatemarginals is the copula function. Using it, any multivariate distribution function can be represented in a way that emphasizes the separate roles of the marginals and of the dependence structure. The goal of...

It is shown that: If (X1, X2) is a permutation invariant central convex unimodal random vector and if A is a symmetric (about 0) permutation invariant convex set then P{(aX1, X2/a) [set membership, variant] A} is nondecreasing as a varies from )+ to 1 and is non-increasing as a varies from 1 to...