Some results on reversed hazard rate

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 95-102

  Chandra, Nimai Kumar ^a   Roy, Dilip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KALYANI   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BURDWAN   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAZARDS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

REVERSED HAZARD RATES;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035644208     PISSN: 02699648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0269964801151077     Document Type: Article

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