Some characterization results based on factorization of the (reversed) Hazard rate function

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3009-3031

  Gupta, Rameshwar D ^a   Gupta, Ramesh C ^b   Sankaran, P G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b University of Maine ^*  (United States)

^c Department of Physics   (India)

Author keywords

(Reversed) Hazard rate; Characterization; Exponential family; Fisher information; Information lack of memory; Type I and Type Ii censoring; Weighted models

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELIABILITY; THEOREM PROVING;

(REVERSED) HAZARD RATE; EXPONENTIAL FAMILY; FISHER INFORMATION; INFORMATION LACK-OF-MEMORY; TYPE I AND TYPE II CENSORING; WEIGHTED MODELS;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 11444270593     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-200038875     Document Type: Article

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