Tail Behavior of the Failure Rate Functions of Mixtures

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 269-288

  Block, Henry ^a   Joe, Harry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Failure rates; Mixtures; Regularly varying

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; LIFE TABLE; STATISTICS;

EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; STATISTICS;

EID: 0031304301     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009653032333     Document Type: Article

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