A new explanation of decreasing failure rate of a mixture of exponentials

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 460-462

  Mi, Jie ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic mixing measure; Exponential distribution; Failure rate; Mixture; Stochastic ordering

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032269534     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.756090     Document Type: Article

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