Document Type

Post-Print

Publication Date

6-11-2015

Subjects

Parallel systems, Random variables, Stochastic orders

Abstract

Let X-lambda 1, X-lambda 2, ... ,X-lambda n be independent non negative random variables with X-lambda i similar to F(lambda(i)t), i = 1, ... , n, where lambda(i) > 0, i = 1, ... , n and F is an absolutely continuous distribution. It is shown that, under some conditions, one largest order statistic X-n:n(lambda) n is smaller than another one X-n:n(theta) according to likelihood ratio ordering. Furthermore, we apply these results when F is a generalized gamma distribution which includes Weibull, gamma and exponential random variables as special cases.

Description

Archived with author permission, this is the authors manuscript that has been accepted for publication by Taylor & Francis Publishing and embargoed.

The version of record can be found on the publisher web site.

DOI

10.1080/03610926.2014.985839

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/16185

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