Inequalities: Theory of Majorization and Its Applications

Albert W. Marshall is Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the University of British Columbia. His fundamental contributions to reliability theory have had a profound effect in furthering its development. Ingram Olkin is Professor Emeritus of Statistics at Stanford University. He has made fundamental contributions in multivariate analysis, and in the development of statistical methods in meta-analysis, which have resulted in its use in many applications. Barry C. Arnold is Distinguished Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Riverside. His previous books deal with Pareto Distributions, Order Statistics, Record Values, Conditionally Specified Distributions, and the Lorenz Order.

• Introduction.- Doubly Stochastic Matrices.- Schur-Convex Functions.- Equivalent Conditions for Majorization.- Preservation and Generation of Majorization.- Rearrangements and Majorization.- Combinatorial Analysis.- Geometric Inequalities.- Matrix Theory.- Numerical Analysis.- Stochastic Majorizations.- Probabilistic, Statistical, and Other Applications.- Additional Statistical Applications.- Orderings Extending Majorization.- Multivariate Majorization.- Convex Functions and Some Classical Inequalities.- Stochastic Ordering.- Total Positivity.- Matrix Factorizations, Compounds, Direct Products, and M-Matrices.- Extremal Representations of Matrix Functions.

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