On the Rayleigh-geometric distribution with applications

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Idika E Okorie1, Anthony C Akpanta2, Johnson Ohakwe3

  • 1School of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.

Heliyon
|August 21, 2019
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Keywords:
Geometric distributionHazard rateMathematicsMaximum likelihoodQueueing analysisRayleigh distribution

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