ON CONDITIONS FOR MIXTURES OF INCREASING FAILURE RATE DISTRIBUTIONS TO HAVE AN INCREASING FAILURE RATE

DOI10.1017/S0269964899131036zbMath0967.60011MaRDI QIDQ4955516

James D. Lynch

Publication date: 15 May 2001

Published in: Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

mixing distributionsurvival distributionsPrekopa's theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Reliability, availability, maintenance, inspection in operations research (90B25)

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