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Concomitants and majorization bounds for bivariate distribution function

Abstract

Let (X,Y)X,Y) be a random vector with distribution function F(x,y),F(x,y), and (X1,Y1),(X2,Y2),...,(Xn,Yn)(X_{1},Y_{1}),(X_{2},Y_{2}),...,(X_{n},Y_{n}) are independent copies of (X,Y).X,Y). Let Xi:nX_{i:n} be the iith order statistics constructed from the sample X1,X2,...,XnX_{1},X_{2},...,X_{n} of the first coordinate of the bivariate sample and Y[i:n]Y_{[i:n]} be the concomitant of Xi:n.X_{i:n}. Denote Fi:n(x,y)=P{Xi:nx,Y[i:n]y}.F_{i:n}% (x,y)=P\{X_{i:n}\leq x,Y_{[i:n]}\leq y\}. Using majorization theory we write upper and lower bounds for FF expressed in terms of mixtures of joint distributions of order statistics and their concomitants, i.e. {\dsum \limits_{i=1}^{n}}% {\sum\limits_{i=1}^{n}} p_{i}F_{i:n}(x,y) and {\dsum \limits_{i=1}^{n}}% {\sum\limits_{i=1}^{n}} p_{i}F_{n-i+1:n}(x,y). It is shown that these bounds converge to FF for a particular sequence (p1(m),p2(m),...,pn(m)),m=1,2,..(p_{1}(m),p_{2}(m),...,p_{n}(m)),m=1,2,.. as m.m\rightarrow\infty.

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