Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Block, Li, Savits, 2003, initial and final behaviour of failure rate functions for mixtures and systems


The initial approximation of mixture failure rate is  straight forward. For each subpopulation pdf = failure rate *Viability.  Because viability approaches 1 initially, mixture of pdf leads to mixture of failure rates.





Reference:

Initial and Final Behaviour of Failure Rate Functions for Mixtures and Systems
Author(s): Henry W. Block, Yulin Li and Thomas H. Savits Source: Journal of Applied Probability, Vol. 40, No. 3 (Sep., 2003), pp. 721-740 Published by: Applied Probability Trust


Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3215946 .


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