Sequential order statistics and k-out-of-n systems with sequentially adjusted failure rates

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 535-549

  Cramer, Erhard ^a   Kamps, Udo ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extremal quotient; Generalized order statistics; Maximum likelihood estimators; Sequential k out of n system; Sequential order statistics; Type II censoring; Weibull distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040365951     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00050853     Document Type: Article

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