Dynamic generalized information measures

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 85-98

  Asadi, Majid ^a   Ebrahimi, Nader ^b   Sooft, Ehsan S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Entropy; Hazard rate; Kullback Leibler information; Reliability; Residual life; R nyi information

Indexed keywords

EID: 27444446343     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2004.10.033     Document Type: Article

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