DocumentCode
1258470
Title
Mean residual life and its association with failure rate
Author
Ghai, Gausi IL ; Mi, Jie
Author_Institution
Florida Int. Univ., Miami, FL, USA
Volume
48
Issue
3
fYear
1999
fDate
9/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
262
Lastpage
266
Abstract
The life time distributions having decreasing, increasing, or upside-down bathtub shaped MRL (mean residual life) are used as models in many applications. Mi (1995) has shown that if a component has a bathtub shape failure rate function, then the MRL is unimodal but the converse does not hold. This paper develops sufficient conditions for the unimodal MRL to imply that the failure rate function has a bathtub shape
Keywords
failure analysis; bathtub shape failure rate function; component failure rate function; failure rate; life time distributions; mean residual life; unimodal mean residual life; upside-down bathtub shape; Aging; Counting circuits; Hospitals; Humans; Insurance; Shape; Sufficient conditions; Surgery;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9529
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/24.799897
Filename
799897
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