Residual entropy and its characterizations in terms of hazard function and mean residual life function

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 263-269

  Asadi, Majid ^a   Ebrahimi, Nader ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Entropy; Generalized Pareto distribution; Hazard rate function; Mean residual life function; Order statistics; Record values; Residual uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005341371     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(00)00056-0     Document Type: Article

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