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A general approach to the shape of failure rate and MRL functions
Author(s) -
Mi Jie
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
naval research logistics (nrl)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.665
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1520-6750
pISSN - 0894-069X
DOI - 10.1002/nav.20014
Subject(s) - failure rate , residual , function (biology) , reliability (semiconductor) , work (physics) , probability density function , mathematics , computer science , reliability engineering , statistics , algorithm , engineering , thermodynamics , physics , mechanical engineering , power (physics) , evolutionary biology , biology
Failure rate and mean residual life are two important characteristics for studying reliability of products. In literature, some work studied the shape of failure rate function based on the knowledge of the associated probability density function; some other work investigated the shape of mean residual life function based on the shape of the associated failure rate function separately for continuous case and discrete case. In this article, a general approach is developed which can be applied to the aforementioned studies. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2004