Inequalities for NBUE and NWUE Life Distributions

Robert L. Launer
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Robert L. Launer: U.S. Army Research Office, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

Operations Research, 1984, vol. 32, issue 3, 660-667

Abstract: This paper presents a procedure for developing reliability inequalities for several known classes of failure distributions. The inequalities are rational functions of the moments and conditional tail moments of the underlying failure distribution. The introduction of four new classes of failure distributions based on the variance behavior facilitates the development of certain inequalities for the NBUE and NWUE distributions.

Keywords: 721 inequalities for NBUE and NWUE failure distributions; 725 NBUE and NWUE failure classes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1984
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