Estimation of Survival Functions under Uniform Stochastic Ordering

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 91, Issue 436, 1996, Pages 1684-1689

  Mukerjee, Hari ^a  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated life testing; Nonparametric estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030342915     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1996.10476738     Document Type: Article

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