Preservation of some reliability properties by certain record statistics

Statistics

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 347-354

  Ahmadi, J ^a   Balakrishnan, N ^b  

^a FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

IFR(DFR); IFRA(DFRA); IMRL(DMRL); IURL(DULR); Minimal repair; NBU(NWU); NBUE(NWUE); Record values; Reversed hazard function

Indexed keywords

EID: 23744503193     PISSN: 02331888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02331880500178752     Document Type: Review

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