On Some Properties of the Bathtub Failure Rate Family of Life Distributions

Microelectronics Reliability

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 679-684

  Mitra, Murari ^a   Basu, Sujit K ^b  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BATHTUB FAILURE RATE;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0030144767     PISSN: 00262714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0026-2714(95)00136-0     Document Type: Article

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