A New Extension of the Exponential Distribution

The present paper considers an extension of the exponential distribution based on mixtures of positive distributions. We study the main properties of this new distribution, with special emphasis on its moments, moment generator function and some characteristics related to reliability studies. We als...

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Main Authors: YOLANDA M. GÓMEZ, HELENO BOLFARINE, HÉCTOR W. GÓMEZ
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2014-06-01
Series:Revista Colombiana de Estadística
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0120-17512014000100002&lng=en&tlng=en