Some properties of ageing notions based on the moment-generating-function order

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 927-934

  Li, Xiaohu ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Convex linear combination; Convolution; Geometric compounding; M 0 class; M class; NBU mg; Star shaped transform

Indexed keywords

EID: 10244222406     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1091543435     Document Type: Article

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