A note on renewal (partial sums) distributions for discrete variables

The purpose of this note is to clarify certain ambiguities in definition of failure rate of discrete distributions in a paper by Nair and Hitha (1989) and to suggest a possible bivariate extension of renewal (partial sum) distributions.

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Year of publication:	1991
Authors:	Kotz, Samuel ; Johnson, Norman L.
Published in:	Statistics & Probability Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0167-7152. - Vol. 12.1991, 3, p. 229-231
Publisher:	Elsevier
Keywords:	Mean residual life function failure rate characterization bivariate distributions

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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