We discuss suitable conditions such that the lifetime of a series or of a parallel system formed by two components having nonindependent lifetimes may be stochastically improved by replacing the lifetimes of each of the components by an independent mixture of the individual components’ lifetimes. We also characterize the classes of bivariate distributions where this phenomenon arises through a new weak dependence notion.
Improving series and parallel systems through mixtures of duplicated dependent components
DI CRESCENZO, Antonio;
2011
Abstract
We discuss suitable conditions such that the lifetime of a series or of a parallel system formed by two components having nonindependent lifetimes may be stochastically improved by replacing the lifetimes of each of the components by an independent mixture of the individual components’ lifetimes. We also characterize the classes of bivariate distributions where this phenomenon arises through a new weak dependence notion.File in questo prodotto:
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