On an extension of the exponential-geometric distribution

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 259-269

  Adamidis, Konstantinos ^a   Dimitrakopoulou, Theodora ^a   Loukas, Sotirios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Characterization; Compounding; EM Algorithm; Exponential distribution; Exponential geometric distribution; Failure rate; Geometric distribution; Lifetime distributions; Maximum likelihood estimation; Mean residual lifetime; Modified extreme value distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 20744454768     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2005.03.013     Document Type: Article

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