Estimation of a monotone mean residual life

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 905-921

  Kochar, Subhash C ^a   Mukerjee, Hari ^a   Samaniego, Francisco J ^a  

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Author keywords

Asymptotic theory; Mean residual life; Order restricted inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034364623     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1015952004     Document Type: Article

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