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Dependence and Aging Properties of Lifetimes with Schur-Constant Survival Functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2009

Lucia Caramellino
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University “La Sapienza”, P.le A. Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy
Fabio Spizzichino
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University “La Sapienza”, P.le A. Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy

Abstract

For n-dimensional survival functions, we study some probabilistic aspects of the Schur-constant property. The latter is of interest in that it extends the “lack-of-memory” property in a Bayesian context. Some general facts are studied in detail, and related results about interdependence, aging, and extendibility are presented.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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