On the median of a finite mixture

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 121-144

  Al Hussaini, Essam K ^a   Osman, Magued I ^b  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Distribution functions; Finite mixture; Life testing; Median

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039460516     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949659708811826     Document Type: Article

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