Further moments inequalities of life distributions with hypothesis testing applications: The IFRA, NBUC and DMRL classes

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 120, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 1-12

  Ahmad, Ibrahim A ^a   Mugdadi, A R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Southern Illinois University Carbondale   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging distributions; Asymptotic efficacies; Decreasing mean residual lifetime; Increasing failure rate average; Invariance; Moments inequalities; New better than used in convex ordering

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344586253     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(02)00493-7     Document Type: Article

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