Reliability studies of the log-exponential inverse gaussian distribution

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 38, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 3532-3543

  Ghitany, M E ^a   Al Mutairi, D K ^a   Gupta, Ramesh C ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bathtub shaped; Critical points; Failure rate; Log EIG distribution; Mean residual life; Monotonicity; Upside down bathtub shaped

Indexed keywords

BATHTUB SHAPED; CRITICAL POINTS; FAILURE RATE; LOG-EIG DISTRIBUTION; MEAN RESIDUAL LIFE; MONOTONICITY; UPSIDE-DOWN BATHTUB SHAPED;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF STATE; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

EID: 70349650948     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920802601356     Document Type: Article

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