On mixture failure rates ordering

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1943-1955

  Finkelstein, Maxim ^a,b   Esaulova, Veronica ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c WEIERSTRASS INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ANALYSIS AND STOCHASTICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decreasing failure rate; Increasing failure rate; Mixture of distributions; Ordering in the likelihood ratio sense; Stochastic ordering

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

LIKELIHOOD RATIO; MIXING DISTRIBUTIONS; MIXTURE FAILURE RATE; STOCHASTIC ORDERING;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33751518005     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920600762871     Document Type: Article

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