Parametric study of competing risk model involving two Weibull distributions

International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 17-34

  Jiang, R ^a,b   Murthy, D N P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Changsha Communication Institute   (China)

Author keywords

Competing risk; Parametric study; Shape of density function; Shape of failure rate; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345011018     PISSN: 02185393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218539397000035     Document Type: Article

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