Sharp bounds for expectations of spacings from DDA and DFRA families

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 303-316

  Danielak, Katarzyna ^a   Rychlik, Tomasz ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bound; Decreasing density on the average; Decreasing failure rate on the average; Order statistic; Projection; Spacing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344628494     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2003.04.002     Document Type: Article

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