Entropy measures and some distribution approximations

Microelectronics Reliability

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1569-1580

  Azzam, M M ^a   Awad, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ENTROPY; FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; THEOREM PROVING;

COROLLARY; DIGAMMA FUNCTION; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD FUNCTION; POISSON APPROXIMATION; SHANNON ENTROPY;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0030268807     PISSN: 00262714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0026-2714(96)00006-6     Document Type: Article

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