Title :
Life Distributions
Author :
Dhillon, Balbir S.
Author_Institution :
Mechanical Engineering Department; University of Ottawa; Ottawa, Ontario KIN 6N5 CANADA.
Abstract :
This paper presents expressions for two distributions. The first distribution can represent increasing, decreasing, and bathtub hazard rates whereas the second distribution can only represent increasing and decreasing hazard rates. Two parameter-estimating procedures are presented.
Keywords :
Bismuth; Data analysis; Hazards; Maximum likelihood estimation; Parameter estimation; Probability distribution; Reliability theory; Shape; Statistical distributions; Data analysis; Hazard rate; Life distribution;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TR.1981.5221168
