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There is a certain intuitive appeal to the vague notion that the 2 components of a vectorxare “less spread out” or “more nearly equal” 3 than are the components of a vectory. Not surprisingly, the notion 4 arises in a variety of contexts, and it can be made precise in a number 5 of ways. But in remarkably many cases, the appropriate precise state- 6 ment is that “xis majorized byy” (writtenx <yand defined ahead 7 in Definition A.1). Some of these cases are reviewed here.
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Marshall, A.W., Olkin, I., Arnold, B.C. (2010). Introduction. In: Inequalities: Theory of Majorization and Its Applications. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68276-1_1
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