Preservation of some aging properties and stochastic orders by weighted distributions

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 627-644

  Misra, Neeraj ^a   Gupta, Nitin ^a   Dhariyal, Ishwari Dutt ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

DFR; DMRL; DRFR; Failure rate; IFR; IMRL; IRFR; Log concave; Log convex; Mrl function; Weight function; Weighted distribution

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

FAILURE RATES; LOG CONCAVE; LOG CONVEX; WEIGHT FUNCTIONS; WEIGHTED DISTRIBUTIONS;

RANDOM VARIABLES;

EID: 38649089770     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920701499506     Document Type: Article

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