Minimum dynamic discrimination information models

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 643-660

  Asadi, Majid ^a   Ebrahimi, Nader ^b   Hamedani, G G ^c   Soofi, Ehsan S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Failure rate dominance; Lifetime distribution; Monotone density; Residual life distribution; Uncertainty ordering

Indexed keywords

EID: 27944449267     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1127322018     Document Type: Article

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