Log-concave probability and its applications

Economic Theory

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 445-469

  Bagnoli, Mark ^a   Bergstrom, Ted ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Costly appraisals; Failure rates; Hazard functions; Log concavity; Mean residual lifetime; Probability distributions; Reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 11944251241     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-004-0514-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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