On the monotonic properties of discrete failure rates

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 255-268

  Gupta, Pushpa L ^a   Gupta, Ramesh C ^a   Tripathi, Ram C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Decreasing failure rates; Discrete distributions; Increasing failure rate; Ratio of probabilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031574544     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(97)00064-5     Document Type: Article

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