A simple relation between the Leimkuhler curve and the mean residual life

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 602-607

  Balakrishnan, N ^a   Sarabia, José María ^b   Kolev, Nikolai ^c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cumulative distribution function; Lifetime; Mean residual life function; Pareto and lognormal distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956489659     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2010.06.009     Document Type: Article

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