A lifetime distribution with an upside-down bathtub-shaped hazard function

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 308-311

  Dimitrakopoulou, Theodora ^a   Adamidis, Konstantinos ^a   Loukas, Sotirios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bathtub curve; Competing risks; Hazard function; Lifetime distribution; Maximum likelihood estimation; Survival function; Upside down bathtub curve

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; HAZARDS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RISK PERCEPTION; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

BATHTUB CURVE; COMPETING RISK; HAZARD FUNCTION; LIFETIME DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL FUNCTION;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 34250376002     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2007.895304     Document Type: Article

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