On stochastic properties of m-spacings

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 683-697

  Misra, Neeraj ^a   van der Meulen, Edward C ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

DFR; Failure (hazard) rate order; IFR; Likelihood ratio order; Log concave distribution; Log convex; m Spacings

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037564129     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(02)00157-X     Document Type: Article

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