Some results on ordering of survival functions through uncertainty

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 167-176

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

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Entropy; Hazard function; Life distribution; Mean residual life time function; Shannon's measure of information; Stochastic ordering

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030606775     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-7152(95)00170-0     Document Type: Article

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