Mixtures of normal distributions: modality and failure rate

DOI10.1016/j.spl.2005.04.037zbMath1076.62102OpenAlexW1965222795MaRDI QIDQ2567183

Henry W. Block, Thomas H. Savits, Yu-Lin Li

Publication date: 29 September 2005

Published in: Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spl.2005.04.037

zbMATH Keywords

failure ratemodalitynormal distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10) Reliability and life testing (62N05)

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