Distributions with known initial hazard rate functions

Marco Scarsini (1, 2) , Moshe Shaked (3)

1 GREGH - Groupement de Recherche et d'Etudes en Gestion à HEC
2 Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Aziendali
3 University of Arizona

The purpose of this paper is to study the distributional properties of a non-negative random vector Image , based on the knowledge of the initial hazard rate functions only. First we study various stochastic orders and stochastic bounds of random vectors that have the same initial hazard rate functions. Then we include some comments about extensions of the results of the paper to n-dimensional vectors (n>2). The results in this paper have various applications in the competing risks theory.

Keywords: Competing risks; Stochastic orders; Fréchet classes; Initial hazard rate functions; Dynamic conditional marginals

Domains: Economy and decision science

Marco Scarsini, Moshe Shaked. Distributions with known initial hazard rate functions. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 1999, Vol. 78, N°1-2, pp. 39-55. ⟨10.1016/S0378-3758(98)00205-5⟩. ⟨hal-00540250⟩