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  <dc:title>Bivariate Laplace Transforms, Stochastic Orders, and Entropy
Measures in Reliability</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package BivLaplaceRL version 1.0.0</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Implements methods for bivariate and univariate Laplace transforms
    of residual lives and reversed residual lives, associated stochastic ordering
    concepts, and entropy measures for reliability analysis. The package covers:
    (1) Bivariate Laplace transform of residual lives and stochastic comparisons
    based on the bivariate Laplace transform order of residual lives (BLt-rl),
    including weak bivariate hazard rate, mean residual life, and relative mean
    residual life orders, nonparametric estimation, and NBUHR/NWUHR aging class
    characterisation; Jayalekshmi, Rajesh, and Nair (2022)
    "Bivariate Laplace Transform of Residual Lives and Their Properties"
    &lt;doi:10.1080/03610926.2022.2085874&gt;;
    (2) Bivariate Laplace transform order of reversed residual lives (BLt-Rrl),
    reversed hazard gradient, reversed mean residual life, and the associated
    stochastic orders (weak bivariate reversed hazard rate, weak bivariate
    reversed mean residual life); Jayalekshmi, Rajesh, and Nair (2022)
    "Bivariate Laplace Transform Order and Ordering of Reversed Residual Lives"
    &lt;doi:10.1142/S0218539322500061&gt;;
    (3) Univariate Laplace transform of residual life, hazard rate, mean residual
    life, and the corresponding stochastic orders (Lt-rl order, hazard rate order,
    MRL order), together with a nonparametric estimator.
    Shannon entropy and Golomb's (1966) information generating function are also
    provided. Parametric families supported include the Gumbel bivariate
    exponential, Farlie-Gumbel-Morgenstern (FGM), bivariate power, and
    Schur-constant distributions. Plotting utilities and a simulation framework
    for evaluating estimator performance are also provided.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 4.1.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: stats, graphics</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: testthat (&gt;= 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown, MASS, survival, covr</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Mahesh Divakaran &lt;imaheshdivakaran@gmail.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Mahesh Divakaran [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3488-0857&gt;, affiliation: Amity School
    of Applied Sciences, Amity University Lucknow),
  S. Jayalekshmi [aut, ctb] (affiliation: Department of Statistics,
    Cochin University of Science and Technology),
  G. Rajesh [aut] (affiliation: Department of Statistics, Cochin
    University of Science and Technology),
  N. Unnikrishnan Nair [aut] (affiliation: Department of Statistics,
    Cochin University of Science and Technology)</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL-3</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-04-30</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=BivLaplaceRL</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.BivLaplaceRL</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en-GB</dc:language>
</oai_dc:dc>
