This paper considers the decision maker whose evaluation and consequent choice of actions is accomplished through the use of the expected utility hypothesis. In cases where the utility function is ...

Let X1, n ≤ ... ≤ Xn,n, be the order statistics of a sample of size n from a distribution function F. Desu (1971) showed that if for all n ≥ 2, nX1,n is identically distributed as X1,1, then F is the ...

A parametric family of distributions is a collection of distributions with a known form that is indexed by a set of quantities called parameters. Methods based on parametric distributions of normal, ...