• DocumentCode
    1352533
  • Title

    A Bayes Explanation of an Apparent Failure Rate Paradox

  • Author

    Barlow, Richard E.

  • Author_Institution
    Operations Research Center; University of California; Berkeley, California 94720 USA.
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1985
  • fDate
    6/1/1985 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    107
  • Lastpage
    108
  • Abstract
    For the exponential life distribution model and any prior distribution for the failure rate parameter, the predictive distribution has a decreasing failure rate. A Bayes explanation is given of why this is logically reasonable.
  • Keywords
    Estimation theory; Exponential distribution; Failure analysis; Hazards; Predictive models; Probability; Reliability engineering; Statistical analysis; Statistical distributions; Testing; Bayes estimate; Exponential distribution; Failure rate; Predictive distribution;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TR.1985.5221964
  • Filename
    5221964
    • Link To Document
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