Characterizations of the ℒ-class of life distributions

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 259-266

  Lin, Gwo Dong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Characterization; Completely monotone function; Equilibrium transformation; Exponential distribution; Laplace transform; class

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032531587     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(98)00102-3     Document Type: Article

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