| Article ID: | iaor20118346 |
| Volume: | 6 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 143 |
| End Page Number: | 148 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2010 |
| Journal: | Pakistan Journal of Statistics and Operation Research |
| Authors: | Shahbaz Muhammad, Mohsin Muhammad, Shahbaz Saman |
| Keywords: | Erlang loss |
In this paper the Erlang‐truncated exponential distribution is characterized by the conditional expectation of record values. The utility of our result is demonstrated in mean residual life by using this characterization.