Balakrishnan, N.; Zhao, Peng - In: Journal of Multivariate Analysis 113 (2013) C, pp. 153-160
We compare the hazard rate functions of the largest order statistic arising from independent heterogeneous gamma random variables and that arising from i.i.d. gamma random variables. Specifically, let X1,…,Xn be independent gamma random variables with Xi having shape parameter 0r≤1 and scale...