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LIKELIHOOD RATIO ORDERING OF THE INSPECTION PARADOX

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2004

Taizhong Hu
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics and Finance, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, People's Republic of China, E-mail: thu@ustc.edu.cn; weizh@mail.ustc.edu.cn
Weiwei Zhuang
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics and Finance, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, People's Republic of China, E-mail: thu@ustc.edu.cn; weizh@mail.ustc.edu.cn

Abstract

In this article, some results on stochastic comparisons of the inspection paradox introduced by Ross [Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences 17: 47–51 (2003)] are established in the sense of the likelihood ratio order.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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