Renewal convergence rates for DHR and NWU lifetimes

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 67-84

  Berenhaut, Kenneth S ^a   Lund, Robert ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

CONVERGENCE RATES; GENERATING FUNCTIONS; HAZARD RATES; POWER SERIES METHOD; STRUCTURAL ORDERING;

MARKOV CHAINS;

EID: 0036002048     PISSN: 02699648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0269964802161055     Document Type: Article

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