Entropy properties of record statistics

Statistical Papers

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 197-213

  Baratpour, S ^a   Ahmadi, J ^a   Arghami, N R ^a  

^a FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

Author keywords

Fisher information; Hazard rate function; Mutual information; Record values; Shannon information

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847372038     PISSN: 09325026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00362-006-0326-7     Document Type: Article

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