Meant residual life processes

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1717-1739

  Csörgo, Miklós ^a   Zitikis, Ričardas ^a,b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Brownian bridge; Brownian motion; Confidence bands; Life expectancy; Mean residual life; Strong consistency; Weak approximations; Weighted empirical processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039712694     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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