Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: The failure rate of a mixture of even the most standard distributions used in reliability can have a complicated shape. However, failure rates of mixtures of two carefully selected distributions will have the well-known bathtub shape. Here we show that mixtures of whole families of distribtions can have a bathtub-shaped failure rate.
Source: Journal of Applied Probability
Authors: Henry W. Block, Yulin Li, Thomas H. Savits, Jie Wang
Institutions: University of Pittsburgh, University of Toledo
Language: English
Subfield: Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Funder: University of Cambridge
OpenAlex ID: W1987601623