On the characterization of survival distributions in reliability by properties of their renewal densities

DOI10.1080/03610927908827792zbMath0496.62013MaRDI QIDQ3959941

Ramesh C. Gupta

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610927908827792

zbMATH Keywords

exponential distribution; mean residual life; geometric distribution; IFR; renewal distribution; DFR; mean life; modified power series distributions; characterization of survival distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62E10: Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions

62N05: Reliability and life testing

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