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On multiply monotone distributions, continuous or discrete, with applications

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  • Claude Lefèvre

    (ULB - Département de Mathématique [Bruxelles] - ULB - Faculté des Sciences [Bruxelles] - ULB - Université libre de Bruxelles)

  • Stéphane Loisel

    (SAF - Laboratoire de Sciences Actuarielle et Financière - UCBL - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - Université de Lyon)

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the class of distributions, continuous or discrete, whose shape is monotone of finite integer order t. A characterization is presented as a mixture of a minimum of t independent uniform distributions. Then, a comparison of t-monotone distributions is made using the s-convex stochastic orders. A link is also pointed out with an alternative approach to monotonicity based on a stationary-excess operator. Finally, the monotonicity property is exploited to reinforce the classical Markov and Lyapunov inequalities. The results are illustrated by several applications to insurance.

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  • Claude Lefèvre & Stéphane Loisel, 2013. "On multiply monotone distributions, continuous or discrete, with applications," Post-Print hal-00750562, HAL.
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    1. Giguelay, J. & Huet, S., 2018. "Testing k-monotonicity of a discrete distribution. Application to the estimation of the number of classes in a population," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 127(C), pages 96-115.
    2. Castañer, A. & Claramunt, M.M. & Lefèvre, C. & Loisel, S., 2015. "Discrete Schur-constant models," Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 140(C), pages 343-362.
    3. Anna Casta~ner & M Merc`e Claramunt, 2017. "Equilibrium distributions and discrete Schur-constant models," Papers 1709.09955, arXiv.org.
    4. Claude Lefèvre & Stéphane Loisel & Pierre Montesinos, 2020. "Bounding basis risk using s-convex orders on Beta-unimodal distributions," Working Papers hal-02611208, HAL.
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    9. Balabdaoui, Fadoua & Kulagina, Yulia, 2020. "Completely monotone distributions: Mixing, approximation and estimation of number of species," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 150(C).
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