Modeling lifetimes with unknown initial age

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 75-80

  Finkelstein, M S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bathtub failure rate; Increasing failure rate; Mean residual lifetime function; Mixture of distributions

Indexed keywords

FAILURE (MECHANICAL); FAILURE ANALYSIS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SERVICE LIFE; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

MEAN RESIDUAL LIFETIME (MRL);

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036531033     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(01)00147-8     Document Type: Article

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