Reliability for Pareto models

Metron

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 191-204

  Nadarajah, Saralees ^a   Kotz, Samuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b George Washington University   (United States)

Author keywords

Confluent hypergeometric function; Gauss hypergeometric function; Incomplete gamma function; Pareto distributions; Reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 4744345692     PISSN: 00261424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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