The ISO* property of noncentrality parameters is derived for the expected value of an ISO* function of independent nonnegative two-parameter compound Poisson random variables and is then applied to unbiasedness of tests and monotonicity of power functions of tests in an order-restricted...

Let (Xi, Yi) i=1, 2, ..., n be n independent and identically distributed random variables from some continuous bivariate distribution. If X(r) denotes the rth ordered X-variate then the Y-variate, Y[r], paired with X(r) is called the concomitant of the rth order statistic. In this...

We consider tandem queueing networks with no waiting spaces and address the issue of ordering the stations so that the throughput (i.e., the departure rate) is maximized. Based on some theoretical and extensive empirical results, we propose two rules for ordering the stations. The first rule...