Author:
Gupta Pushpa L.,Gupta Ramesh C.
Abstract
It is well known that mixtures of decreasing failure rate (DFR) distributions have the DFR property. A similar result is, of course, not true for increasing failure rate (IFR) distributions. In a recent note, Gurland and Sethuraman (1994, Technometrks36(4): 416–418) presented two examples where mixtures of IFR distributions show DFR property. In this paper, we present a general approach to study the mixtures of distributions and show that the failure rates of the unconditional and conditional distributions cross at most at one point. Mixtures of Weibull distribution with a shape parameter greater than 1 are examined in detail. This also enables us to study the monotonic properties of the mean residual life function of the mixture. Some examples are provided to illustrate the results.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering,Management Science and Operations Research,Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty,Statistics and Probability
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