Bounds for means and variances of progressive type II censored order statistics

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 301-315

  Balakrishnan, N ^a   Cramer, E ^b   Kamps, U ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bounds for moments; Generalized order statistics; Order statistics; Progressive type II censoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000519612     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(01)00104-3     Document Type: Article

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