Properties of an inverse Gaussian mixture of bivariate exponential distribution and its generalization

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 359-365

  Al Mutairi, Dhaifalla K ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Bivariate exponential distributions; Dependent failures; Inverse Gaussian distribution; Mixtures of distributions; Reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031574879     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(96)00184-8     Document Type: Article

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