Use of mean residual life in testing departures from exponentiality

DOI10.1080/10485250600759454zbMath1106.62051OpenAlexW1966293193MaRDI QIDQ3423583

Emanuele Taufer, Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka

Publication date: 14 February 2007

Published in: Journal of Nonparametric Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4kq9v2hb

zbMATH Keywords

Wiener processmean residual lifetest for exponentialityquantile processKolmogorov--Smirnov statistic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Testing in survival analysis and censored data (62N03) Reliability and life testing (62N05)

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