Testing whether lifetime distribution is decreasing uncertainty

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 9-19

  Ebrahimi, Nader ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic distribution; Empirical probability density function; Entropy; Hazard function; Order statistics; Sample distribution; Survival function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031591990     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3758(96)00215-7     Document Type: Article

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