کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1153570 958341 2011 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Stochastic orderings, folded beta distributions and fairness in coin flips
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه ریاضیات آمار و احتمال
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Stochastic orderings, folded beta distributions and fairness in coin flips
چکیده انگلیسی

This paper studies stochastic orderings for folded beta distributions. A necessary and sufficient condition for one folded beta random variable to be larger than another in likelihood ratio order is obtained. The work is motivated by the recent results of Porzio and Ragozini on stochastic orderings for folded binomial distributions. Beta distributions are commonly used to model proportions or probabilities, particularly as conjugate distributions for binomial random variables. Stochastic orderings may arise, for instance, in considerations of fairness in coin flips.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Statistics & Probability Letters - Volume 81, Issue 6, June 2011, Pages 632–638
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