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In this chapter, we shall first generalize the concepts of association and dependence in the bivariate case. We shall see that there are a variety of ways of extending the concept of association. Then, we shall consider its applications to lifetime distribution and see how we can generalize the concepts of failure rates and residual life, and thus the notions of multivariate lifetime distribution classes. Finally, we shall discuss the concept of negative association.
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Gupta, A.K., Zeng, WB., Wu, Y. (2010). Association and Dependence. In: Probability and Statistical Models. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4987-6_7
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