On cumulative entropies

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 139, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4072-4087

  Di Crescenzo, Antonio ^a   Longobardi, Maria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cumulative residual entropy; Differential entropy; Empirical cumulative entropy; Mean inactivity time; Mean past lifetime; Proportional reversed hazards model; Reversed hazard rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 69249203523     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2009.05.038     Document Type: Article

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