Characterization of continuous distributions by variance bound and its implications to reliability modeling and catastrophe theory

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1189-1199

  Nair, N Unnikrishnan ^a   Sudheesh, K K ^a  

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

Author keywords

Catastrophe theory; Characterization; Conditional expectations; Exponential and Pearson families; Failure rate; Reliability; Variance bound

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMBER THEORY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RELIABILITY;

CATASTROPHE THEORY; CONDITIONAL EXPECTATIONS; EXPONENTIAL AND PEARSON FAMILIES; FAILURE RATES; VARIANCE BOUND;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 33747190339     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920600629443     Document Type: Article

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