K-combined random fields: Basic properties and stochastic orderings

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Chen, Boming
Wang, Fangfang
Ma, Chunsheng
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2021-05-17
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Convex order , Elliptically contoured random field , Modified Bessel function , Peakedness , Usual stochastic order
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Chen, B., Wang, F., & Ma, C. (2021). K-combined random fields: Basic properties and stochastic orderings. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, doi:10.1080/03610926.2021.1914100
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This paper introduces the K-combined vector random field, whose finite-dimensional characteristic functions are made up of certain power functions and whose finite-dimensional density functions are comprised of the modified Bessel functions of the second type. It is an elliptically contoured vector random field, contains K-differenced vector random field of Alsultan and Ma (2019) as a special case, and possesses all orders of moments. It is fully characterized by its mean vector function and its covariance matrix function, just like a Gaussian vector random field. With various selection of its parameters, its finite-dimensional distributions may have heavy tails or thin tails, comparing with a Gaussian one, and thus it provides a potential model for applications. We also investigate the usual stochastic ordering, the convex ordering, and the peakedness ordering of K-combined random fields and of multivariate K-combined distributions, with necessary and/or sufficient conditions derived.

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Taylor and Francis
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Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods;
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0361-0926
1532-415X
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