A class of statistics useful in testing increasing failure rate average and new better than used life distributions

DOI10.1016/0378-3758(94)90159-7zbMath0804.62086OpenAlexW1988826232MaRDI QIDQ1333095

Ibrahim A. Ahmad

Publication date: 13 September 1994

Published in: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-3758(94)90159-7

zbMATH Keywords

numerical exampleconsistencyasymptotic normalityMonte Carlonew better than usedPitman asymptotic efficiencyunbiasednessempirical distributionsrelative efficienciesincreasing failure rate averagetesting for exponentialitysmall sample null distribution critical values

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Reliability and life testing (62N05)

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