Characterizations of the RHR and MIT orderings and the DHHR and IMIT classes of life distributions

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 447-461

  Ahmad, I A ^a   Kayid, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b SUEZ CANAL UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RELIABILITY THEORY; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

K OUT-OF-N SYSTEMS; LIFE DISTRIBUTION; REVERSED HAZARD RATE ORDERS; REVERSED HAZARD RATES; STOCHASTIC COMPARISONS; SUITABLE CONDITIONS; TIME ORDERING; WEIGHTED DISTRIBUTION;

HAZARDS;

EID: 25644431972     PISSN: 02699648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S026996480505028X     Document Type: Article

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