Likelihood ratio ordering of order statistics, mixtures and systems

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 138, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1242-1257

  Navarro, Jorge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coherent system; DLR; Hazard rate; ILR; k Out of n system; Likelihood ratio order; Mixture; Order statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 38149120393     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2007.04.022     Document Type: Article

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