Ch. 6. Mixtures and monotonicity of failure rate functions

Handbook of Statistics

Volumn 20, Issue , 2001, Pages 185-198

  Shaked, Moshe ^a   Spizzichino, Fabio ^a  

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EID: 70350336563     PISSN: 01697161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-7161(01)20008-X     Document Type: Review

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