Relationships between pure tail orderings of lifetime distributions and some concepts of residual life

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 247-255

  Rojo, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Age smooth life distributions; Coherent systems; D ordering; Decreasing failure rate (DFR); Increasing failure rate; Mean residual life; Regular variation; Residual life

Indexed keywords

FAILURE RATE; ORDERING; REPAIRABLE SYSTEM;

RELIABILITY;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 2742560615     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00054788     Document Type: Article

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