Testing exponentiality based on the Kullback-Leibler information with the type II censored data

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 22-26

  Park, Sangun ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Entropy; Hazard function; Maximum entropy; Monte Carlo simulation; Order statistics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

HAZARD FUNCTION; JOINT ENTROPY; MAXIMUM ENTROPY; ORDER STATISTICS;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 15544384588     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2004.837314     Document Type: Article

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