Information Distinguishability with Application to Analysis of Failure Data

DOI10.2307/2291079zbMath0828.62006OpenAlexW4251504300MaRDI QIDQ4844201

Ehsan S. Soofi, Mohamed Habibullah, Nader Ebrahimi

Publication date: 2 January 1996

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2291079

zbMATH Keywords

reliabilityrelative entropymaximum entropycross-entropydiagnosticslifetime distributionsentropy estimatesentropy differencefailure dataequivalence resultinformation discrepancydiscrimination information statisticsinformation discrimination distinguishabilityKullback-Leibler functionsrobustness of parametric proceduressensitivity of nonparametric statistics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10) Reliability and life testing (62N05) Nonparametric inference (62G99)

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