A class of Hurwitz-Lerch Zeta distributions and their applications in reliability

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 196, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 521-531

  Gupta, Pushpa L ^a   Gupta, Ramesh C ^a   Ong, Seng Huat ^b   Srivastava, H M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hazard rate; Hurwitz Lerch Zeta function; Infinitely divisible distributions; Log convex distributions; Modified power series distributions; Reliability functions; Residual life function; Reversed hazard rate; Statistical inference

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

HAZARD RATE; HURWITZ-LERCH ZETA FUNCTION; INFINITELY DIVISIBLE DISTRIBUTIONS; LOG-CONVEX DISTRIBUTIONS; MODIFIED POWER SERIES DISTRIBUTIONS; RELIABILITY FUNCTIONS; RESIDUAL LIFE FUNCTION; REVERSED HAZARD RATE;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

EID: 38649091739     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2007.06.012     Document Type: Article

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