The limiting failure rate for a convolution of gamma distributions

DOI10.1016/j.spl.2014.06.018zbMath1305.62351OpenAlexW2085822123MaRDI QIDQ467019

Henry W. Block, Naftali A. Langberg, Thomas H. Savits

Publication date: 3 November 2014

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spl.2014.06.018

zbMATH Keywords

reliabilityconvolutiondecreasing failure rateincreasing failure ratefailure rate functiongamma densities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reliability and life testing (62N05)

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