Ageing characteristics of the weibull mixtures

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 591-600

  Gupta, Pushpa L ^a   Gupta, Ramesh C ^a  

^a University of Maine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; MIXTURES;

CONDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION; DECREASING FAILURE RATE; INCREASING FAILURE RATE; MEAN RESIDUAL LIFE FUNCTIONS; MONOTONIC PROPERTIES; SHAPE PARAMETERS; TECHNOMETRICS; WEIBULL MIXTURE;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0030503401     PISSN: 02699648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0269964800004587     Document Type: Article

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