Distributions with monotone failure rate. (English) Zbl 0681.62089

Barlow, R. E.; Proschan, F.

Theory of reliability, Proc. Int. Sch. Phys. “E. Fermi”, Course 94, Varenna/Italy 1984, 12-22 (1986).

[For the entire collection see Zbl 0659.00014.]
The authors define classes of life distributions with increasing failure rate (IFR) and increasing failure rate average (IFRA) and review certain results dealing with the preservation of these classes under reliability operations.

MSC:

62N05	Reliability and life testing
62E10	Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions

Keywords:

closedness properties; life distributions; increasing failure rate; IFR; increasing failure rate average; IFRA; reliability operations

Citations:

Zbl 0659.00014