The monotonicity of the reliabilitymeasures of the beta distribution

Applied Mathematics Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1277-1283

  Ghitany, M E ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Beta distribution; Failure rate; Mean residual life

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); FUNCTIONS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; THEOREM PROVING;

BETA DISTRIBUTION; FAILURE RATE; MEAN RESIDUAL LIFE; RELIABILITY FUNCTIONS;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 12244256120     PISSN: 08939659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aml.2003.12.007     Document Type: Article

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