How Pooling Failure Data May Reverse Increasing Failure Rates

DOI10.2307/2291533MaRDI QIDQ3128761zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John Gurland, Jayaram Sethuraman

Publication date 17 April 1997

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2291533

zbMATH Keywords

poolingproportional hazardsmixtures of decreasing failure rate distributionsmixtures of increasing failure rate distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15) Reliability and life testing (62N05) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10)

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