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  1. Minitab, Inc., State College, PA, USA

    Jonathan C. Steele

  2. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA

    Frank M. Guess (Professor)

  3. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA

    Timothy M. Young

  4. Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

    David J. Edwards (Assistant Professor)

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  1. Department of Statistics and Informatics, Faculty of Economics, University of Kragujevac, City of Kragujevac, Serbia

    Miodrag Lovric

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Steele, J.C., Guess, F.M., Young, T.M., Edwards, D.J. (2011). Mean Residual Life. In: Lovric, M. (eds) International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04898-2_35

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