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LIKELIHOOD RATIO ORDERING OF THE INSPECTION PARADOX

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2004

Taizhong Hu  and
Weiwei Zhuang
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
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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.

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Research Article
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , October 2004 , pp. 503 - 510
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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