Preservations of NBUC and NBU(2) classes under mixtures

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 277-288

  Li, Yulin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

INTEGRAL INEQUALITIES; LIFE-TIME DISTRIBUTION;

MIXTURES;

EID: 17644401724     PISSN: 02699648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0269964805050151     Document Type: Article

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