A measure of discrimination between two residual life-time distributions and its applications

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 257-265

  Ebrahimi, Nader ^a   Kirmani, S N U A ^a,b  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cumulative hazard function; Hazard function; IFR; Kullback Leibler discrimination information; MDI principle; Mean residual lifetime function; NBU

Indexed keywords

DISCRIMINATION; KULLBACK LEIBLER INFORMATION;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 0030371628     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00054789     Document Type: Article

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