On the Conjecture of Kochar and Korwar Articles uri icon

publication date

  • May 2010

start page

  • 1274

end page

  • 1283

issue

  • 5

volume

  • 101

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0047-259X

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1095-7243

abstract

  • In this article, we partially solve a conjecture by Kochar and Korwar (1996) [9] in relation to the normalized spacings of the order statistics of a sample of independent exponential random variables with different scale
    parameters. In the case of a sample of size n=3, they proved the ordering of the normalized spacings and conjectured that result holds for all n. We prove this conjecture for n=4 for both spacings and normalized spacings and generalize some results to n>4.