Estimation of critical points in the mixture inverse Gaussian model

Statistical Papers

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 445-452

  Gupta, Ramesh C ^a   Akman, Olcay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birnbaum Saunders' model; Failure rate; Length biased inverse Gaussian; Mean residual life function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0642311050     PISSN: 09325026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02925999     Document Type: Article

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