Characterization of Some First Passage Times Using Log-Concavity and Log-Convexity as Aging Notions

DOI10.1017/S026996480000005XzbMath1133.60309MaRDI QIDQ3415846

Shaked, Moshe, J. George Shanthikumar

Publication date: 19 January 2007

Published in: Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60E15: Inequalities; stochastic orderings

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