On classes of lifetime distributions with unknown age

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 473-484

  Willmot, Gordon E ^a   Cai, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUEUEING THEORY;

A-TRANSFORM; AGING PROPERTIES; CLASS-PROPERTY; LIFE DISTRIBUTION; LIFE-TIME DISTRIBUTION; MEAN RESIDUAL LIFETIME; MIXED POISSON DISTRIBUTIONS; RESIDUAL LIFETIME;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0034556188     PISSN: 02699648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0269964800144067     Document Type: Article

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