Estimation of total time on test transforms for stationary observations

Stochastic Processes and their Applications

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 229-253

  Csörgö, Miklós ^a   Yu, Hao ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Empirical processes; Life testing; Mixing; Positive association; Quantile processes; Stationarity; Total time on test; Weighted metrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031575044     PISSN: 03044149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4149(97)00029-X     Document Type: Article

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