New approximate solutions per unit of time for periodically checked systems with different lifetime distributions.
Fitting a suitable distribution to the data from a real experiment is a crucial topic in statistics. However, many of the existing distributions cannot account for the effect of environmental conditions on the components under test. Moreover, the components are usually heterogeneous, meaning that they do not share the same distribution. In this article, we aim to obtain a new generalization of the Compound Rayleigh distribution by using mixture models and incorporating the environmental conditions...
Some properties of the "new better than used in failure rate" (NBUFR) and the "new better than used in expectation" (NBUE) classes of life distributions are given. These properties include moment inequalities and moment generating functions behaviors. In addition, nonparametric estimation and testing of the survival functions of these classes are discussed.
The unknown survival function S(t) of a random variable T ≥ 0 is considered. First we study the properties of S(t) and then, we estimate it from a Bayesian point of view. We compare the estimator with the posterior mean and we finish giving Bayes rules for linear functions of S(t).