Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 October 2004
We consider shot-noise and max-shot-noise processes driven by spatial stationary Cox (doubly stochastic Poisson) processes. We derive their upper and lower bounds in terms of the increasing convex order, which is known as the order relation to compare the variability of random variables. Furthermore, under some regularity assumption of the random intensity fields of Cox processes, we show the monotonicity result which implies that more variable shot patterns lead to more variable shot noises. These are direct applications of the results obtained for so-called Ross-type conjectures in queuing theory.