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We study the closure properties of the family ℒ(α) of classes of life distributions introduced by Lin (1998) under general compounding. We define a discrete analogue of this family and study some properties.
This paper first recalls some stochastic orderings useful for studying the ℒ-class and the Laplace order in general. We use these orders to show that the higher moments of an ℒ-class distribution need not exist. Using simple sufficient conditions for the Laplace ordering, we give examples of distributions in the ℒ- and ℒα-classes. Moreover, we present explicit sharp bounds on the survival function of a distribution belonging to the ℒ-class of life distributions. The results reveal that the ℒ-class should not be seen as a more comprehensive class of ageing distributions but rather as a large class of life distributions on its own.
The class of life distributions for which , where , and , is studied. We prove that this class is larger than the HNBUE (HNWUE) class (consisting of those life distributions for which for x ≧ 0) and present results concerning closure properties under some usual reliability operations. We also study some shock models and a certain cumulative damage model. The class of discrete life distributions for which for 0 ≦ p ≦ 1, where , is also studied.
A large deviation theorem of the Cramér–Petrov type and a ranking limit theorem of Loève are used to derive an approximation for the statistical distribution of the failure time of fibrous materials. For that, fibrous materials are modeled as a series of independent and identical bundles of parallel filaments and the asymptotic distribution of their failure time is determined in terms of statistical characteristics of the individual filaments, as both the number of filaments in each bundle and the number of bundles in the chain grow large simultaneously. While keeping the number n of filaments in each bundle fixed and increasing only the chain length k leads to a Weibull limiting distribution for the failure time, letting both increase in such a way that log k(n) = o(n), we show that the limit distribution is for . Since fibrous materials which are both long and have many filaments prevail, the result is of importance in the materials science area since refined approximations to failure-time distributions can be achieved.
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