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PRESERVATIONS OF NBUC AND NBU(2) CLASSES UNDER MIXTURES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2005

Yulin Li
Yulin Li
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio 43606, E-mail: Li.Yulin@UToledo.edu
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Abstract

New integral inequality characterizations of the NBUC and NBU(2) classes of lifetime distributions are given. These results are then used to prove preservation under mixture results for the NBUC and NBU(2) classes.

Type
Research Article
Information
Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , April 2005 , pp. 277 - 288
Copyright
© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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