Mixtures of distributions with increasing linear failure rates

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 485-504

  Block, Henry W ^a   Savits, Thomas H ^a   Wondmagegnehu, Eshetu T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bathtub failure rate; Increasing failure rate; Increasing linear failure rate; Mixture; Modified bathtub shape

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038559385     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1053003558     Document Type: Article

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