A measure of discrimination between past lifetime distributions

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 173-182

  Di Crescenzo, Antonio ^a   Longobardi, Maria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Kullback Leibler discrimination information; Proportional reversed hazards model; Reversed hazard rate function

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542508863     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2003.11.019     Document Type: Article

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