A saddlepoint approximation for testing exponentiality against some increasing failure rate alternatives

DOI10.1016/S0167-7152(02)00117-7zbMath1007.62081OpenAlexW2001934586MaRDI QIDQ1613104

Riccardo Gatto, Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka

Publication date: 5 September 2002

Published in: Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0167-7152(02)00117-7

zbMATH Keywords

reliabilityexponential distributionsurvival analysisgoodness-of-fit testuniform spacingsspacings statistics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Testing in survival analysis and censored data (62N03) Reliability and life testing (62N05)

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