Characterizations of the hazard rate order and IFR aging notion

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 235-242

  Belzunce, Félix ^a   Gao, Xiaoli ^b   Hu, Taizhong ^b   Pellerey, Franco ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aging notions; DMRL; DRLLt; Hazard rate order; IFR; Laplace transform order; Laplace transform order of residual lives; Mean residual life order

Indexed keywords

EID: 22944448649     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2004.10.007     Document Type: Article

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