On the coefficient of variation of the - and -classes

Arnab Bhattacharjee () and Debasis Sengupta

Statistics & Probability Letters, 1996, vol. 27, issue 2, pages 177-180

Abstract: The coefficient of variation of a life distribution is no more than 1 if it belongs to the -class and no less than 1 if it belongs to the -class. However, there are nonexponential distributions in each of these classes that have coefficient of variation equal to 1.

Keywords: -class; -class; NBUE; HNBUE; HNWUE; Coefficient; of; variation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996

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