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An ordering inequality for exchangeable random variables

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

G. S. Watson
G. S. Watson*
Affiliation:
Princeton University
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∗Postal address: Department of Statistics, Princeton University, Fine Hall, Washington Road, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
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Abstract

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Let X1, · ··, Xn be exchangeable random variables with finite variance and two sequences of constants satisfying a1≦···≦an, b1≦···≦bn. Suppose that a′1, ···, a′n is a rearrangement of a1, ···, an and that g(x) is a non-decreasing function. Then

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Letters to the Editor
Information
Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , March 1986 , pp. 274 - 276
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1986 

Footnotes

The writing of this paper was partially supported by Grant DMS 842–1301 from the National Science Foundation to the Department of Statistics, Princeton University.

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