A Useful Property of Best Linear Unbiased Predictors with Applications to Life-Testing

American Statistician

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 22-28

  Doganaksoy, Necip ^a   Balakrishnan, N ^b  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Failure censoring; Gauss Markov model; Large sample prediction; Location scale parameter distribution; Order statistic; Prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031521661     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1997.10473581     Document Type: Article

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