The Laplace order and ordering of residual lives

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 145-156

  Belzunce, Félix ^a   Ortega, Eva ^a   Ruiz, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

DMRL IMRL ; DRLLt IRLLt ; Hazard rate order; HNBUE HNWUE ; Increasing convex order; Laplace transform order; Laplace transform order of residual lives; Mean residual life order; NBU; NBUE NWUE ; Stochastic order;

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033114752     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(98)00202-8     Document Type: Article

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