Classes of residual lifetime distributions conditioned on failure histories

1980 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-267
Author(s):  
Elja Arjas†
Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 1532
Author(s):  
Abdulhakim A. Albabtain ◽  
Mansour Shrahili ◽  
Lolwa Alshagrawi ◽  
Mohamed Kayid

A novel methodology for modelling time to failure of systems under a degradation process is proposed. Considering the method degradation may have influenced the failure of the system under the setup of the model several implied lifetime distributions are outlined. Hazard rate and mean residual lifetime of the model are obtained and a numerical situation is delineated to calculate their amounts. The problem of modelling the amount of degradation at the failure time is also considered. Two monotonic aging properties of the model is secured and a characterization property of the symmetric degradation models is established.


2002 ◽  
Vol 39 (02) ◽  
pp. 434-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Di Crescenzo ◽  
Maria Longobardi

As proposed by Ebrahimi, uncertainty in the residual lifetime distribution can be measured by means of the Shannon entropy. In this paper, we analyse a dual characterization of life distributions that is based on entropy applied to the past lifetime. Various aspects of this measure of uncertainty are considered, including its connection with the residual entropy, the relation between its increasing nature and the DRFR property, and the effect of monotonic transformations on it.


2011 ◽  
Vol 04 (02) ◽  
pp. 171-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
VIKAS KUMAR ◽  
H. C. TANEJA

The present communication considers Havrda and Charvat entropy measure to propose a generalized dynamic information measure. It is shown that the proposed measure determines the survival function uniquely. The residual lifetime distributions have been characterized. A bound for the dynamic entropy measure in terms of mean residual life function has been derived, and its monotonicity property is studied.


2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon E. Willmot ◽  
Jae-Kyung Woo

AbstractWe discuss some properties of a class of multivariate mixed Erlang distributions with different scale parameters and describes various distributional properties related to applications in insurance risk theory. Some representations involving scale mixtures, generalized Esscher transformations, higher-order equilibrium distributions, and residual lifetime distributions are derived. These results allows for the study of stop-loss moments, premium calculation, and the risk allocation problem. Finally, some results concerning minimum and maximum variables are derived and applied to pricing joint life and last survivor policies.


2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 1239-1250
Author(s):  
Mohamed Kayid ◽  

<abstract><p>The most common non-monotonic hazard rate situations in life sciences and engineering involves bathtub shapes. This paper focuses on the quantile residual life function in the class of lifetime distributions that have bathtub-shaped hazard rate functions. For this class of distributions, the shape of the $ \alpha $-quantile residual lifetime function was studied. Then, the change points of the $ \alpha $-quantile residual life function of a general weighted hazard rate model were compared with the corresponding change points of the basic model in terms of their location. As a special weighted model, the order statistics were considered and the change points related to the order statistics were compared with the change points of the baseline distribution. Moreover, some comparisons of the change points of two different order statistics were presented.</p></abstract>


2000 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 473-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon E. Willmot ◽  
Jun Cai

Some class properties of the used better (worse) than aged [UBA (UWA)] and the used better (worse) than aged in expectation [UBAE (UWAE)] classes of lifetime distributions are considered. Relationships with the decreasing (increasing) mean residual lifetime [DMRL (IMRL)] class and the decreasing (increasing) variance residual lifetime [DVRL (IVRL)] class are established. Discrete UBA and UWA distributions are introduced and studied. Characterizations of UBA and UWA distributions are derived by using discrete aging properties of mixed Poisson distributions. Applications of these results to queueing theory and ruin are then considered. In particular, preservation of UBA (UWA) and UBAE (UWAE) under a transform of life distributions is given.


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