| Article ID: | iaor1990762 |
| Country: | Israel |
| Volume: | 26 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 1 |
| End Page Number: | 7 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1989 |
| Journal: | Journal of Applied Probability |
| Authors: | Roy Dilip . |
A bivariate exponential distribution due to Gumbel and a bivariate Lomax distribution due to Lindley and Singpurwalla have been characterized through a bivariate extension of a univariate characterizing property of the exponential and the Lomax distribution; the characterization is based on mean residual lives and hazard rates.