Distributions with known initial hazard rate functions

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 78, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 39-55

  Scarsini, Marco ^a   Shaked, Moshe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Competing risks; Dynamic conditional marginals; Fr chet classes; Initial hazard rate functions; Stochastic orders

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033130389     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3758(98)00205-5     Document Type: Article

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