Necessary and sufficient conditions for stochastic orders between (n − r + 1)-out-of-n systems in proportional hazard (reversed hazard) rates model

Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan, Ghobad Barmalzan, Abedin Haidari and Amir T. Payandeh Najafabadi

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 2018, vol. 47, issue 23, 5854-5866

Abstract: Consider two (n − r + 1)-out-of-n systems, one with independent and non-identically distributed components and another with independent and identically distributed components. When the lifetimes of components follow the proportional hazard rates model, we establish a necessary and sufficient condition for the usual stochastic order to hold between the lifetimes of these two systems. For the special case of r = 2, some generalized forms of this result to the hazard rate, dispersive and likelihood ratio orders are also obtained. Moreover, for the case when the lifetimes of components follow the proportional reversed hazard rates model, we derive some similar results for comparing the lifetimes of two systems . Applications of the established results to different situations are finally illustrated.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2017.1406517

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