On Estimating Survival Functions Under Stochastic Order

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On Estimating Survival Functions Under Stochastic
Order

• Juan Gallegos
• University of Houston - Downtown
• Daisy (Yan) Huang
• University of California - Berkeley
• Thien T. Nguyen
• University of California San Diego
• Greg Schrage
• Wabash College
• Advisor Dr. Javier Rojo

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Outline

• Background Info/Literature Review
• Our Estimators
• Simulation Study
• Results

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Introduction

• Why is it important?
• Initiation of the stochastic ordering concept
  (Lehmann 1955)
• Biomedical research
• Software reliability
• Engineering Sciences
• Economics, etc