Order statistics from a logistic distribution and applications to survival and reliability analysis

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 200-206

  Mathai, Arak M ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Centre for Mathematical Sciences   (India)

Author keywords

and Dirichlet distributions; Appell's and Lauricella functions; Hypergeometric; Logistic population; Order statistics; Product moments; Recurrence relations; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICS;

APPELL AND LAURICELLA FUNCTIONS; DIRICHLET DISTRIBUTIONS; HYPERGEOMETRIC; LOGISTIC DISTRIBUTION; ORDER STATISTICS; PRODUCT MOMENTS; RECURRENCE RELATIONS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0041672473     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2003.813432     Document Type: Article

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