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Some properties of two families of classes of life distributions

Part of: Survival analysis and censored data Operations research and management science Special processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

N. R. Mohan  and
S. Ravi
N. R. Mohan*
Affiliation:
University of Mysore
S. Ravi*
Affiliation:
University of Mysore
*
∗ Postal address: Department of Studies in Statistics, University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, Mysore 570006, India.
∗ Postal address: Department of Studies in Statistics, University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, Mysore 570006, India.
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Abstract

We study the closure properties of the family ℒ(α) of classes of life distributions introduced by Lin (1998) under general compounding. We define a discrete analogue of this family and study some properties.

Keywords

Life distributionLaplace orderingclass ℒ(α)class 𝒢(α)reliability

MSC classification

Primary: 60K10: Applications (reliability, demand theory, etc.)
Secondary: 90B25: Reliability, availability, maintenance, inspection 62N05: Reliability and life testing
Type
Research Papers
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 39 , Issue 3 , September 2002 , pp. 581 - 589
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 2002 

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