• DocumentCode
    1488373
  • Title

    Characterization of the Pearson family of distributions

  • Author

    Nair, N. Unnikrishnan ; Sankaran, P.G.

  • Author_Institution
    Cochin Univ. of Sci. & Technol., India
  • Volume
    40
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1991
  • fDate
    4/1/1991 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    75
  • Lastpage
    77
  • Abstract
    The Pearson family of distributions is characterized in terms of the failure rates. Analogous results when failure time is discrete are presented. Theorems are proved which generalize some previously published results concerning the gamma and negative binomial distributions
  • Keywords
    failure analysis; reliability theory; statistical analysis; Pearson distributions; failure rates; failure time; gamma distributions; negative binomial distributions; reliability theory; Probability; Reliability theory; Sufficient conditions;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/24.75339
  • Filename
    75339
    • Link To Document
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