Reliability Properties of Reversed Residual Lifetime

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2031-2042

  Nanda, Asok K ^a   Singh, Harshinder ^b,c   Misra, Neeraj ^d   Paul, Prasanta ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Reversed coefficient of variation; Reversed hazard rate; Reversed hazard rate in average; Reversed lifetime; Reversed mean residual; Reversed residual life; Reversed variance residual

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS; THEOREM PROVING;

REVERSED RESIDUAL LIFETIME;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0141717062     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-120023264     Document Type: Article

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