On the proportional mean residual life model and its implications

Statistics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 175-187

  Gupta, Ramesh C ^a   Kirmani, S N U A ^b  

^a University of Maine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging properties; Proportional hazard; Residual moments; Residual variance

Indexed keywords

EID: 11744317674     PISSN: 02331888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02331889808802660     Document Type: Article

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