Characterizations of classes of lifetime distributions generalizing the NBUE class

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 20-32

  Klar, Bernhard ^a   Müller, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

class; Ageing; M class; Moment generating function; NBUE; Reliability bounds; Stochastic ordering

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038248797     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1044476825     Document Type: Article

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