Some classes of multivariate life distributions in discrete time

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 181-189

  Nair, N Unnikrishnan ^a   Asha, G ^a  

^a Department of Physics   (India)

Author keywords

Life distributions; multivariate failure rates; multivariate geometric laws

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031209032     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmva.1997.1682     Document Type: Article

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