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Tail orderings and the total time on test transform

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  1. Mathematical Institute, University of Wrocław, Pl. Grunwaldzki 2/4, 50-384 Wrocław, Poland

Abstract

The paper presents some connections between two tail orderings of distributions and the total time on test transform. The procedure for testing the pure-tail ordering is proposed.

Keywords

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partial orderings, outliers, spacings, goodness-of-fit test, density-quantile function

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Applicationes Mathematicae
1996-1997/24/1
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Pages:
77-86
Main language of publication
English
Received
1995-08-25
Published
1996
Exact and natural sciences