Reliability properties of generalized mixtures of Weibull distributions with a common shape parameter

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 141, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2600-2613

  Franco, M ^a   Vivo, J M ^a   Balakrishnan, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging properties; Bivariate Weibull distributions; Failure rate; Generalized mixtures; Log concavity; Parallel systems; Series systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954607067     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2011.02.012     Document Type: Article

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