Comparison of Estimators for Stress-Strength Reliability in the Gompertz Case

Year 2009, Volume: 38 Issue: 3, 339 - 349, 01.03.2009

Bugra Saraçoglu M.f. Kaya A.m. Abd-elfattah

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