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Shock models with NBUE survival

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Henry W. Block
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh
Thomas H. Savits
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh

Abstract

Conditions are given on a process so that a shock model governed by the process will have nbue survival time. A related condition is given so that survival will be NBU and it is shown that a pure birth process satisfies this condition. A result of A-Hameed and Proschan is obtained as a corollary.

Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1978 

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