[{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki2\/stochastic-dominance-wikipedia\/#BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki2\/stochastic-dominance-wikipedia\/","headline":"Stochastic dominance – Wikipedia","name":"Stochastic dominance – Wikipedia","description":"before-content-x4 Stochastic dominance is a partial order between random variables.[1][2] It is a form of stochastic ordering. 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The concept arises in decision theory and decision analysis in situations where one gamble (a probability distribution over possible outcomes, also known as prospects) can be ranked as superior to another gamble for a broad class of decision-makers. It is based on shared preferences regarding sets of possible outcomes and their associated probabilities. Only limited knowledge of preferences is required for determining dominance.  Risk aversion is a factor only in second order stochastic dominance.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Stochastic dominance does not give a total order, but rather only a partial order: for some pairs of gambles, neither one stochastically dominates the other, since different members of the broad class of decision-makers will differ regarding which gamble is preferable without them generally being considered to be equally attractive.Throughout the article, \u03c1,\u03bd{displaystyle rho ,nu } stand for probability distributions on        (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4R{displaystyle mathbb {R} }, while A,B,X,Y,Z{displaystyle A,B,X,Y,Z} stand for particular random variables on R{displaystyle mathbb {R} }. The notation X\u223c\u03c1{displaystyle Xsim rho } means that        (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4X{displaystyle X} has distribution \u03c1{displaystyle rho }.There are a sequence of stochastic dominance orderings, from first \u2ab01{displaystyle succeq _{1}}, to second \u2ab02{displaystyle succeq _{2}}, to higher orders \u2ab0n{displaystyle succeq _{n}}. The sequence is increasingly more inclusive. That is, if \u03c1\u2ab0n\u03bd{displaystyle rho succeq _{n}nu }, then \u03c1\u2ab0k\u03bd{displaystyle rho succeq _{k}nu } for all k\u2265n{displaystyle kgeq n}. Further, there exists \u03c1,\u03bd{displaystyle rho ,nu } such that \u03c1\u2ab0n+1\u03bd{displaystyle rho succeq _{n+1}nu } but not \u03c1\u2ab0n\u03bd{displaystyle rho succeq _{n}nu }.Stochastic dominance could trace back to (Blackwell, 1953),[3] but it was not developed until 1969\u20131970.[4]Table of ContentsStatewise dominance[edit]First-order[edit]Equivalent definitions[edit]Extended example[edit]Second-order[edit]Equivalent definitions[edit]Sufficient conditions[edit]Necessary conditions[edit]Third-order[edit]Sufficient condition[edit]Necessary conditions[citation needed][edit]Higher-order[edit]Constraints[edit]See also[edit]References[edit]Statewise dominance[edit]The simplest case of stochastic dominance is statewise dominance (also known as state-by-state dominance), defined as follows:Random variable A is statewise dominant over random variable B if A gives at least as good a result in every state (every possible set of outcomes), and a strictly better result in at least one state.For example, if a dollar is added to one or more prizes in a lottery, the new lottery statewise dominates the old one because it yields a better payout regardless of the specific numbers realized by the lottery. Similarly, if a risk insurance policy has a lower premium and a better coverage than another policy, then with or without damage, the outcome is better. Anyone who prefers more to less (in the standard terminology, anyone who has monotonically increasing preferences) will always prefer a statewise dominant gamble.First-order[edit]Statewise dominance is implied by first-order stochastic dominance (FSD),[5] which is defined as:Random variable A has first-order stochastic dominance over random variable B if for any outcome x, A gives at least as high a probability of receiving at least x as does B, and for some x, A gives a higher probability of receiving at least x. In notation form, P[A\u2265x]\u2265P[B\u2265x]{displaystyle P[Ageq x]geq P[Bgeq x]} for all x, and for some x, "},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki2\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki2\/stochastic-dominance-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Stochastic dominance – Wikipedia"}}]}]