Ordering conditional lifetimes of coherent systems

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1173-1184

  Khaledi, Baha Eldin ^a,b   Shaked, Moshe ^c  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b RAZI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherent systems; Hazard rate stochastic order; Likelihood ratio order; Order statistics; Residual life; Samaniego's signature; Warning light

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845221959     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2006.01.012     Document Type: Article

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