On order relations between reliability measures. (English) Zbl 0617.60084

Gupta, Ramesh C.; Kirmani, S. N. U. A.

Commun. Stat., Stochastic Models 3, 149-156 (1987).

This paper deals with the question of whether an ordering of two life distributions with respect to a reliability measure (that means the survival function, the failure rate function and the mean residual life function) implies the same ordering with respect to another reliability measure.

Reviewer: G.Oprisian

MSC:

60K10	Applications of renewal theory (reliability, demand theory, etc.)
90B25	Reliability, availability, maintenance, inspection in operations research

Keywords:

life distributions; reliability measure; failure rate function