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On Life Distributions Having Monotone Residual Variance

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

Volume

1

Issue

3

First Page

299

Last Page

307

Abstract

Launer [6] introduced the class of life distributions having decreasing (increasing) variance residual life, DVRL (IVRL). It is shown that the DVRL (IVRL) distributions are intimately connected to the behavior of the mean residual life function of the equilibrium distribution. Some counter examples are presented to demonstrate the lack of relationship between DVRL (IVRL) and NBUE (new better than used in expectation) (NWUE; new worse than used in expectation) distributions. Finally, we obtain bounds on moments and survival functions of DVRL (IVRL) distributions. These bounds turn out to be improvements on the previously known bounds for decreasing (increasing) mean residual life (DMRL (IMRL)) distributions. © 1987, Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved.

Department

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

Original Publication Date

1-1-1987

DOI of published version

10.1017/S0269964800000073

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