The posterior distribution of the parameters of component lifetimes based on autopsy data in a shock model

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 271-292

  Gåsemyr, Jørund ^b   Natvig, Bent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Critical set; Critical shock; Fatal set; Natural conjugate prior; Weighted sum of products of generalized gamma distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039982282     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00103     Document Type: Article

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