New characterizations of the no-aging property and the ℓ1-isotropic model

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 903-910

  Chick, Stephen E ^a   Mendel, Max B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian probability; Characterization of probability models; Exponential model; Hazard gradient; Memoryless property; No aging; Tensor methods in probability; 1 isotropic model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032246369     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1032438385     Document Type: Article

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