The Shapes of a Probability Density Function and Its Hazard Function

Masaaki Sibuya
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Masaaki Sibuya: Keio University, Department of Mathematics

A chapter in Lifetime Data: Models in Reliability and Survival Analysis, 1996, pp 307-314 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The shape of a probability density function restricts that of its hazard function, and vice versa. We are concerned with the six specific ‘shapes’: increasing, decreasing, unimodal, anti-unimodal, increasing-decreasing-increasing, and decreasing-increasing-decreasing.

Keywords: Probability Density Function; Hazard Function; Distribution Range; Finite Interval; Discontinuous Point (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4757-5654-8_40

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