A measure of discrimination between past lifetime distributions

Antonio Di Crescenzo and Maria Longobardi

Statistics & Probability Letters, 2004, vol. 67, issue 2, 173-182

Abstract: On the basis of Kullback-Leibler discrimination information and of discrimination information introduced by Ebrahimi and Kirmani (Ann. Inst. Statist. Math. 48 (1996a) 257), we propose a measure of discrepancy between past-life distributions. Some properties of this measure are studied and a characterization of the proportional reversed hazards model through such a measure is given.

Keywords: Kullback-Leibler; discrimination; information; Reversed; hazard; rate; function; Proportional; reversed; hazards; model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (14)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167-7152(04)00032-X
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:stapro:v:67:y:2004:i:2:p:173-182

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/supportfaq.cws_home/regional
https://shop.elsevie ... _01_ooc_1&version=01

Access Statistics for this article

Statistics & Probability Letters is currently edited by Somnath Datta and Hira L. Koul

More articles in Statistics & Probability Letters from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().