Stochastic comparisons of mixtures of convexly ordered distributions with applications in reliability theory

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 363-372

  Belzunce, Félix ^a   Shaked, Moshe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian imperfect repair; Convex mean residual life function; IFR; Increasing convex order; Mean residual life order; Mixtures; NBUE; Nonhomogeneous poisson process; Nonhomogeneous pure birth process

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035402639     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(01)00030-X     Document Type: Article

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