Testing whether lifetime distribution is decreasing uncertainty

DOI10.1016/S0378-3758(96)00215-7MaRDI QIDQ1372862zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nader Ebrahimi

Publication date 4 November 1997

Published in Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0378-3758(96)00215-7

zbMATH Keywords

distribution-free testempirical probability density functionentropyhazard functionorder statisticssample distributionsurvival function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Reliability and life testing (62N05)

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