On some lifetime distributions with decreasing failure rate

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4433-4440

  Chahkandi, M ^a   Ganjali, M ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC VARIANCE; DECREASING FAILURE RATE; EM ALGORITHMS; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; LIFE-TIME DISTRIBUTION; METHOD OF MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MIXING DISTRIBUTIONS; MIXING POWER; PARAMETER DISTRIBUTIONS; REAL DATA SETS; SIMULATION STUDIES;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 69449091425     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2009.06.016     Document Type: Article

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