SELECTION PROCEDURES FOR RESTRICTED FAMILIES OF PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS.

Abstract

Let pi sub 1, pi sub 2,...,pi sub k be k populations. The random variable X sub i associated with pi sub i has a continuous distribution F sub i, i = 1,2,...,k. We are primarily interested in selecting a subset such that the probability is at least P star that the selected subset includes the population with the largest (smallest) quantile of a given order alpha(0 < alpha < 1). We assume each F sub i has a unique alpha-quantile, Xi sub(alpha i). Let F sub (i) (x) = F sub (i) denote the cumulative distribution function of the population with the ith smallest alpha-quantile. The report considers families of distributions ordered in a certain sense with respect to a specified continuous distribution G and considers a selection procedure which is different from the non-parametric procedure of Rizvi and Sobel (1967).

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0664474

Entities

People

  • Richard E. Barlow
  • Shanti Gupta

Organizations

  • Purdue University

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • California
  • Contracts
  • Cooperation
  • Distribution Functions
  • Families (Human)
  • Mathematics
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Stochastic Processes

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  • Mathematics

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