Characterizations of the -class of life distributions

Lin Gwo Dong

Statistics & Probability Letters, 1998, vol. 40, issue 3, 259-266

Abstract: Since Klefsjö (1983) defined and investigated the -class of life distributions, this class has attracted a great deal of attention. In this paper, we first clarify the existing characterizations of the -class. Then we apply these results to estimate the moments of distributions in and to characterize the exponential distribution.

Keywords: -class; Laplace; transform; Completely; monotone; function; Equilibrium; transformation; Characterization; Exponential; distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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