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Activity Number: 359
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 6, 2008 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Quality and Productivity
Abstract - #301359
Title: Mean Residual of Some Discrete Distributions
Author(s): Syed A. Hossain*+ and Mohammad Ahsanullah and Syed N. Kirmani
Companies: Rider University and Rider University and University of Northern Iowa
Address: Management Science Department, Lawrencevilleq, NJ, 08648,
Keywords: Mean residual ; Discrete distributions ; Conditional expectation ; Hazard rate ; Characterization
Abstract:

We present some distributional properties of mean residual of discrete distributions. It has been found that for most of these distributions the mean residuals are related to their hazard rates. Using these relations several characterizations of the discrete distributions are presented. Results are useful in reliability and actuarial science.

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