This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper studies a new class of Z-valued random variables, called beta unimodal, which are 'dot products' (in the sense of Steutel and van ...

A random variable that can take only a certain specified set of individual possible values-for example, the positive integers 1, 2, 3, . . . For example, stock prices are discrete random variables, ...

Stochastic dominance (SD) theory is concerned with orderings of random variables by classes of utility functions characterized solely in terms of general properties. This paper discusses a type of ...

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