Some results on residual entropy function

Felix Belzunce (), Jorge Navarro (), José M. Ruiz () and Yolanda del Aguila ()

Metrika: International Journal for Theoretical and Applied Statistics, 2004, vol. 59, issue 2, 147-161

Abstract: Ebrahimi and Pellerey (1995) and Ebrahimi (1996) proposed the Shannon residual entropy function as a useful dynamic measure of uncertainty. They studied the characterization problem from the residual entropy. They also used this function to define a stochastic order and two classes of distributions, DURL and IURL. In this paper, we obtain some new results on this function and we correct some mistakes in the preceding literature. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2004

Keywords: Life distributions; characterization; Shannon entropy; residual entropy; failure rate; stochastic orders and classes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1007/s001840300276

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