Bounds on life expectancy for the Rayleigh and Weibull distributions

DOI10.1016/0025-5564(89)90085-0zbMATH Open0675.62076OpenAlexW2146330829WikidataQ69290432 ScholiaQ69290432MaRDI QIDQ1122286FDOQ1122286

Authors: B. Raja Rao, Sheela Talwalker 

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Mathematical Biosciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0025-5564(89)90085-0

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zbMATH Keywords

Weibull distributionboundsmean residual lifenumerical computationsGompertz distributionRayleigh distributionincomplete gamma functionsMills' ratioembryonic and postnatal growthlife expectancy functionnormal and tumor growth

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reliability and life testing (62N05) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Statistical tables (62Q05)

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