STOCHASTIC COMPARISONS ON RESIDUAL LIFE AND INACTIVITY TIME OF SERIES AND PARALLEL SYSTEMS

1 January 2003

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

Vol. 17 (2), 267-275
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0269964803172087

Abstract

Inactivity time is a reliability conception dual to the residual life. In this article, we establish some stochastic comparisons on inactivity time and the residual life of series and parallel systems, respectively. Some applications are presented as well.

Keywords

RESIDUAL LIFE
INACTIVITY TIME
LIFE AND INACTIVITY
COMPARISONS ON RESIDUAL
STOCHASTIC COMPARISONS
PARALLEL

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