Stochastic comparisons of random minima and maxima from life distributions

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 107-112

  Bartoszewicz, Jaroslaw ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

Author keywords

60E15; 62N05; DFR; DFRA; Exponential distribution; IFR; IFRA; Laplace transform; Mixtures; NBU; NWU; Partial orders; Reversed failure rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041908467     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(01)00139-0     Document Type: Article

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