Information distinguishability with application to analysis of failure data

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 90, Issue 430, 1995, Pages 657-668

  Soofi, Ehsan S ^a   Ebrahimi, Nader ^b   Habibullah, Mohamed ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SUPERIOR   (United States)

Author keywords

Entropy; Kullback Leibler; Lifetime distribution; Nonparametric; Reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 21844481917     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1995.10476560     Document Type: Article

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