A stochastic dominance (SD) relation can be defined by two different perspectives: One from the view of distributions, and other one expected utilities. In early days, Fishburn investigated SD we refer this perspective as Fishburn’s SD. his many results was development fractional-order for continuous distributions. However, discrete cannot directly generalized, because some properties fractiona...

This paper explores poverty trends in Romania from 1994 to 1997. It finds no reduction in poverty. Regional and other types of poverty decompositions are presented. The poverty profile relies on tests of stochastic dominance. This approach avoids the problem that poverty comparisons may not be robust to the subjective choice of a poverty line. In addition the use of tests of stochastic dominanc...