Asymptotic behavior of a general class of mixture failure rates

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 244-262

  Finkelstein, Maxim ^a,b   Esaulova, Veronica ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accelerated life model; Decreasing failure rate; Increasing failure rate; Mixture of distributions; Proportional hazards model

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; THEOREM PROVING;

ACCELERATED LIFE MODEL; ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIOR; FAILURE RATES; MIXTURE OF DISTRIBUTIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL;

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY;

EID: 33646084377     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/1143936149     Document Type: Article

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