Stochastic Comparisons of Some Distances between Random Variables

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, we show that the expectation of the absolute value of the difference between two copies, not necessarily independent, of a random variable is a measure of its variability in the sense of Bickel and Lehmann (1979). Moreover, if the two copies are negatively de...

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Main Authors: Patricia Ortega-Jiménez, Miguel A. Sordo, Alfonso Suárez-Llorens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-04-01
Series:Mathematics
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/9/9/981