Ordering Properties of Convolutions of Exponential Random Variables

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 185-192

  Bon, Jean Louis ^a   Pǎltǎnea, Eugen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b TRANSILVANIA UNIVERSITY OF BRASOV   (Romania)

Author keywords

Convolution; Hazard rate order; Likelihood ratio order; Majorization; Mean order; Stochastic order

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 0033142806     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009605613222     Document Type: Article

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