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Use of mean residual life in testing departures from exponentiality
- Author(s): Rao Jammalamadaka, S
- Taufer, Emanuele
- et al.
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https://doi.org/10.1080/10485250600759454Abstract
We utilize the important characterization that E(X-t|X>t) is a constant for t ∈ [0, ∞) if and only if X is distributed as an exponential random variable, in order to construct a new test procedure for exponentiality. We discuss asymptotic distribution theory and other properties of the proposed procedure. Simulation studies indicate that the proposed statistic has very good power in a large variety of situations.
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