12 Mean residual life: Theory and applications

Handbook of Statistics

Volumn 7, Issue , 1988, Pages 215-224

  Guess, Frank ^a   Proschan, Frank ^a  

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EID: 70350343798     PISSN: 01697161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-7161(88)07014-2     Document Type: Review

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