Entropy-based measure of uncertainty in past lifetime distributions

Journal of Applied Probability - Tập 39 Số 2 - Trang 434-440 - 2002
Antonio Di Crescenzo1, Maria Longobardi2
1Università della Basilicata
2Università di Napoli Federico II

Tóm tắt

As proposed by Ebrahimi, uncertainty in the residual lifetime distribution can be measured by means of the Shannon entropy. In this paper, we analyse a dual characterization of life distributions that is based on entropy applied to the past lifetime. Various aspects of this measure of uncertainty are considered, including its connection with the residual entropy, the relation between its increasing nature and the DRFR property, and the effect of monotonic transformations on it.

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Journal of Applied Probability

Tập 39 Số 2

434-440

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