An exact test for HNBUE class of life distributions

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 261-275

  Hendi, M ^a   Al Nachawati, H ^a   Montasser, M ^a   Alwasel, I ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Consistency; Convex ordering; Exponential distribution; HNBUE; Hypothesis testing; Product limit estimator; Randomly right censored data

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032361408     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949659808811891     Document Type: Article

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