A likelihood ratio test for a shift in the lifelength distribution

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1937-1945

  Gadag, Veeresh ^a   Balasooriya, Uditha ^a,b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Exponential distribution; Maximum likelihood estimation; Order statistics; Outliers; Shock models

Indexed keywords

EID: 26844441596     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929808832201     Document Type: Article

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