On conditions for mixtures of increasing failure rate distributions to have an increasing failure rate

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 33-36

  Lynch, James D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIXTURES;

INCREASING FAILURE RATE; LOG CONCAVES; MIXING DISTRIBUTIONS; STOCHASTICALLY INCREASING; SURVIVAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033484954     PISSN: 02699648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0269964899131036     Document Type: Article

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