Reliability properties of order statistics from bivariate exponential distributions

Communications in Statistics. Part C: Stochastic Models

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 611-631

  Baggs, Geraldine E ^a   Nagaraja, H N ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bivariate exponential distributions; failure rate; Generalized hyperexponential distributions; Generalized mixtures

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004442746     PISSN: 08820287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15326349608807403     Document Type: Article

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