Order Statistic Properties, Random Generation, and Goodness-of-Fit Testing for a Minimal Repair Model

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 94, Issue 445, 1999, Pages 266-272

  Agustin, Ma Zenia N ^a   Peña, Edsel A ^b  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Block, Borges, and Savits model; Imperfect and perfect repairs; Nonhomogeneous Poisson process; Random number generation; Recurrent event

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442293802     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1999.10473842     Document Type: Article

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