Some properties of the minimum and the maximum of random variables with joint logconcave distributions

Metrika

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 313-317

  Navarro, Jorge ^a   Shaked, Moshe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Decreasing reversed hazard rate; Increasing hazard rate; Logconcavity; Order statistics; Parallel system; Series system

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952091628     PISSN: 00261335     EISSN: 1435926X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00184-009-0232-9     Document Type: Article

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