Journal of the American Statistical Association · 1971 · 170 citations · 3 references
Natural SciencesBiostatisticsMaintenance EngineeringJoint DistributionsMultivariate AnalysisReliability ModelingBivariate DistributionsFailure Probability
Abstract In this article bivariate failure rate is defined, and it is shown that no absolutely continuous bivariate distribution with constant failure rate exists except in the special case when the marginals are independently distributed.
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