STOCHASTIC ORDERING OF SUMS OF TWO INDEPENDENT EXPONENTIAL RANDOM VARIABLES
EUGEN PÄLTÄNEA Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, âTransilvaniaâ University of BraĆov, Iulia Maniu 50, BraĆov 500091, Romania, email: epaltanea@unitbv.ro
In this paper, we formulate a necessary and sufficient condition for ranking in the convex order the sums of two independent exponential random variables. This characterization is added to a series of recent results in the field.