On smooth estimation of mean residual life

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 223-236

  Chaubey, Yogendra P ^a   Sen, Pranab K ^b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

62G07; 62G20; Exponential smoothing; Hille's theorem; Strong consistency; Survival function; Tail behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010630386     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3758(98)00144-x     Document Type: Article

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