Some properties of the failure rate function for mixtures of Erlang distributions

DOI10.1080/03610926.2020.1849720OpenAlexW3112762733MaRDI QIDQ5095980

Christina Koutropoulou, Konstadinos Politis, George Tzavelas

Publication date: 12 August 2022

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610926.2020.1849720

zbMATH Keywords

failure ratestochastic orderDescartes' rule of signsErlang distributionmixture distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistics (62-XX)

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