A new lifetime distribution

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 4497-4509

  Kuş, Coşkun ^a  

^a SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Compounding; Decreasing failure rate; EM algorithm; Exponential distribution; Lifetime distributions; Maximum likelihood estimation; Zero truncated Poisson distribution

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

ASYMPTOTIC VARIANCES; COVARIANCE; FAILURE RATE; LIFETIME DISTRIBUTION;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 34147131788     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2006.07.017     Document Type: Article

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