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Summary:
Generalizing the result by Y. L. Tong, a chain of inequalities for probabilities in some types of multivariate distributions is proved. These inequalities embrace a large number of interesting special cases. Nine illustrations are given: cases of multivariate equicorrelated normal, $t,\chi^2$, Poisson, exponential distributions, normal and rank statistics for comparing many treatments with one control, order statistics used in estimating quantiles, and characteristic roots of covariance matrices in certain multiple sampling.
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