Representing the mean residual life in terms of the failure rate

DOI10.1016/S0895-7177(03)90038-0zbMath1045.62104arXivmath/0411297OpenAlexW2061333963MaRDI QIDQ597410

Ramesh C. Gupta, David M. Bradley

Publication date: 6 August 2004

Published in: Mathematical and Computer Modelling (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411297

zbMATH Keywords

gamma distributionPearson family of distributionsMaxwell distributionGaussian probability functionUltimately increasing failure rate

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10) Reliability and life testing (62N05)

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