Continuous Mixtures of Exponentials and IFR Gammas Having Bathtub-Shaped Failure Rates

DOI10.1239/jap/1294170507zbMath1203.62173OpenAlexW1986743204MaRDI QIDQ3067834

Henry W. Block, Thomas H. Savits, Jie Wang, Naftali A. Langberg

Publication date: 13 January 2011

Published in: Journal of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1239/jap/1294170507

zbMATH Keywords

reliabilitybathtub failure ratefailure rate function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15) Reliability and life testing (62N05)

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Some properties of the failure rate function for mixtures of Erlang distributions ⋮ A MIXTURE OF EXPONENTIAL AND IFR GAMMA DISTRIBUTIONS HAVING AN UPSIDEDOWN BATHTUB-SHAPED FAILURE RATE ⋮ A Glaser Twist: Focus on the Mixture Parameters ⋮ Generalized mixtures of Weibull components

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