A new lifetime model with decreasing failure rate

Statistics

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 465-476

  Barreto Souza, Wagner ^a   Bakouch, Hassan S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c Tanta University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

exponential distribution; exponential Poisson Lindley distribution; maximum likelihood; order statistics; Poisson Lindley distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869083850     PISSN: 02331888     EISSN: 10294910     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02331888.2011.595489     Document Type: Article

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