Some properties of weighted distributions in the context of repairable systems

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 223-228

  Sunoj, S M ^a   Maya, S S ^a  

^a Department of Polymer Science and Rubber Technology   (India)

Author keywords

Maintainability function; Reversed hazard rate; Weighted distributions

Indexed keywords

PARETO PRINCIPLE; THEOREM PROVING;

MAINTAINABILITY FUNCTION; PEARSON SYSTEM; WEIGHTED DISTRIBUTIONS;

STATISTICS;

EID: 32444448045     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920500439968     Document Type: Article

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