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RELIABILITY PROPERTIES OF EXTENDED LINEAR FAILURE-RATE DISTRIBUTIONS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 August 2007

M. E. Ghitany  and
Samuel Kotz
M. E. Ghitany
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics and Operations Research Faculty of Science Kuwait UniversitySafat, Kuwait E-mail: ghitany@kuc01.kuniv.edu.kw
Samuel Kotz
Affiliation:
Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering The George Washington University Washington DC 20052 E-mail: kotz@gwu.edu
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Abstract

This article investigates reliability properties of a flexible extended linear failure-rate family of distributions generated using the relation F¯(x) = αF¯0(x)/[1 − α¯F¯0(x)], where α > 0, α¯ = 1 − α, and F¯0(x) is the reliability function of the linear failure-rate distribution.

Type
Research Article
Information
Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , July 2007 , pp. 441 - 450
Copyright
2007 Cambridge University Press

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