Understanding the shape of the mixture failure rate (with engineering and demographic applications)

Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 643-663

  Finkelstein, Maxim ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging distributions; Failure (mortality) rate; Frailty; Mixture of distributions; Mortality plateau

Indexed keywords

AGEING PROCESS; ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIOUR; CONTINUOUS MIXTURES; FAILURE RATE; MIXTURE OF DISTRIBUTIONS;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

MIXTURES;

EID: 73349088715     PISSN: 15241904     EISSN: 15264025     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asmb.815     Document Type: Article

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