"These review/exploratory chapters present ... research ... reported at the International Workshop on Stochastic Orders in Reliability and Risk Management, or SORR 2011, which took place in the City Hotel, Xiamen, China, from June 27 to June 29, 2011"--P. [4] of cover.
Theory of stochastic orders: A global dependence stochastic order based on the presence of noise / Moshe Shaked, Miguel A Sordo, and Alfonso Suárez-Llorens. Duality theory and transfers for stochastic order relations / Alfred Müller. Reversing conditional orderings / Rachele Foschi and Fabio Spizzichino
Stochastic comparison of order statistics: Multivariate comparisons of ordered data / Félix Belzunce. Sample spacings with applications in multiple-outlier models / Nuria Torrado and Rosa E. Lillo. Sample range of two heterogeneous exponential variables / Peng Zhao and Xiaohu Li
Stochastic orders in reliability: On bivariate signatures for systems with independent modules / Gaofeng Da and Taizhong Hu. Stochastic comparisons of cumulative entropies / Antonio Di Crescenzo and Maria Longobardi. Decreasing percentile residual life : properties and estimation / Alba M. Franco-Pereira, Jacobo de Una, Rosa E. Lillo, and Moshe Shaked. A review on convolutions of gamma random variables / Baha-Eldin Khaledi and Subhash Kochar. On used systems and systems with used components / Xiaohu Li, Franco Pellerey, and Yinping You. On allocation of active redundancies to systems : a brief review / Xiaohu Li and Weiyong Ding
Stochastic orders in risk analysis: Dynamic risk measures within discrete-time risk models / Hélène Cossette and Etienne Marceau. Excess wealth transform with applications / Subhash Kochar and Maochao Xu
Applications: Intermediate tail dependence : a review and some new results / Lei Hua and Harry Joe. Second-order conditions of regular variation and Drees-type inequalities / Tiantian Mao. Individual and moving ratio charts for Weibull processes / Francis Pascual. On a slow server problem / Vladimir Rykov. Dependence comparison of multivariate extremes via stochastic tail orders / Haijun Li.
Stochastic orders in reliability and risk : in honor of professor Moshe Shaked. ISBN 9781461468912. Published by Springer in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.