Log-concavity and monotonicity of hazard and reversed hazard functions of univariate and multivariate skew-normal distributions

DOI10.1007/s00184-010-0321-9zbMath1238.62013OpenAlexW1974773094MaRDI QIDQ421055

Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan, Ramesh C. Gupta

Publication date: 23 May 2012

Published in: Metrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00184-010-0321-9

zbMATH Keywords

multivariate normal distributionhazard gradientlog-concave density function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characterization and structure theory for multivariate probability distributions; copulas (62H05) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10) Reliability and life testing (62N05)

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