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In this paper, we consider some bivariate distributions that are used in reliability theory and study their entropies and mutual information.
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Ahsanullah, M., Habibullah, M. (1996). On the Entropies and the Mutual Information of Some Bivariate Continuous Distributions Used in Reliability. In: Jewell, N.P., Kimber, A.C., Lee, ML.T., Whitmore, G.A. (eds) Lifetime Data: Models in Reliability and Survival Analysis. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5654-8_1
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