Quantile-Based Reliability Analysis
- 1 January 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods
- Vol. 38 (2), 222-232
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03610920802187430
Abstract
Quantile functions are equivalent alternatives to distribution functions in modeling and analysis of statistical data. The present article discusses the role of quantile functions in reliability studies. We present the hazard, mean residual, variance residual, and percentile residual quantile functions, their mutual relationships and expressions for the quantile functions in terms of these functions. Further, some theoretical results relating to the Hankin and Lee ( 2006 Hankin , R. K. S. , Lee , A. ( 2006 ). A new family of non-negative distributions . Austral. N.Z. J. Statist. 48 : 67 – 78 . [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] [Google Scholar] ) lambda distribution are discussed.Keywords
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