Characterizations and model selections through reliability measures in the discrete case

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 197-206

  Roy, Dilip ^a   Gupta, R P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BURDWAN   (India)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Characterization; Failure rate; Mean residual life; Primary 62N05; Secondary 62H05; Stochastic modelling; Survival function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011182597     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(98)00260-0     Document Type: Article

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