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Random variables with maximum sums

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Ludger Rüschendorf
Ludger Rüschendorf*
Affiliation:
University of Freiburg
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∗Postal address: Institut für Mathematische Stochastik, Universität Freiburg, Hebelstr. 27, 7800 Freiburg, W. Germany.
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Abstract

Motivated by a problem in PERT networks we consider the question of construction of random variables with maximum sums when the marginals are fixed.

Keywords

MEASURES WITH GIVEN MARGINALSTOTAL DURATION DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONSTOCHASTIC INEQUALITIES

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Research Article
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Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , September 1982 , pp. 623 - 632
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1982 

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