Fisher information in weighted distributions

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 833-841

  Iyengar, Satish ^a   Kvam, Paul ^b   Singh, Harshinder ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exponential family; Hazard rate function; Meta analysis; Order statistics; Residual lifetime; Reversed hazard rate function; Selection model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033273087     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3316134     Document Type: Article

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