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The New Zenga curve in the context of reliability analysis

K. R. Muraleedharan NairDepartment of Statistics, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, IndiaCorrespondence[email protected]
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N. SreelakshmiDepartment of Statistics, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India
Pages 6540-6552 | Received 14 Aug 2012, Accepted 26 Dec 2012, Published online: 07 Oct 2014

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