Majorization and the Lorenz Order: A Brief Introduction /

These notes are designed for a one quarter course introducing majorization and the Lorenz order. The inequality principles of Dalton, especially the transfer or Robin Hood principle, are given appropriate prominence.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arnold, Barry C.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 1987.
Series:Lecture notes in statistics (Springer-Verlag) ; 43.
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents: Introduction
  • Majorization in IR
  • The Lorenz order in the space of distribution functions
  • Transformations and their effects
  • Multivariate and stochastic majorization
  • Some related orderings
  • Some applications
  • References
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index.