Continuous Mixtures with Bathtub-Shaped Failure Rates

DOI10.1239/jap/1208358966zbMath1137.62380MaRDI QIDQ5459923

Jie Wang, Henry W. Block, Thomas H. Savits, Yu-Lin Li

Publication date: 30 April 2008

Published in: Journal of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1239/jap/1208358966

zbMATH Keywords

reliability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62E15: Exact distribution theory in statistics

62N05: Reliability and life testing

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