EXPONENTIAL LIFE TEST PROCEDURES WHEN THE DISTRIBUTION HAS MONOTONE FAILURE RATE

Abstract

A number of estimates and tests for mean life and other parameters derived under the exponential distribution assumption are studied under the alternative condition that the distribution has increasing (decreasing) failure rate. The estimates considered are, for the most part, based on censored and truncated samples. It is shown that these estimates generally favor the producer (consumer) in the IFR (DFR) case. Properties of order statistics and their spacings from distributions with increasing (decreasing) failure rate are presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1964
Accession Number
AD0610593

Entities

People

  • Frank Proschan
  • Richard E. Barlow

Organizations

  • University of California, Berkeley

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Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Engineering
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Life Tests
  • Mathematics
  • Military Research
  • New York
  • North Carolina
  • Operations Research
  • Order Statistics
  • Random Variables
  • Space Flight
  • Space Sciences
  • Statistics
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Theorems

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

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  • Economics
  • Statistical inference.

Technology Areas

  • Space