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Characteristic properties of multivariate survival functions in terms of residual life distributions

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This paper discusses the relationships among some characteristic properties of the multivariate survival function based on the residual life distribution, and provides the conditions for their equivalence. In the meanwhile, the corrected version of Ma (1996, Theorem 1 (ii) and (iii)) is given.

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  1. Chunsheng Ma

    Present address: Department of Statistics, The University of British Columbia, V6T 1Z2, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

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  1. School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Sydney, 2006, N.S.W., Australia

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Ma, C. Characteristic properties of multivariate survival functions in terms of residual life distributions. Metrika 47, 227–240 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02742875

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