Abstract
The block replacement policy, wherein items are replaced at regular intervals of time and on failure, is rather wasteful because sometimes almost new items are also removed. As an alternative a policy of replacement by new items at regular intervals of time and by used items on failure, is suggested. The consequences of this policy, called used item replacement policy, are studied for Erlangian and sub-exponential life-time distributions. The latter distribution which is the difference of two negative exponential distributions, does not seem to have received much attention in the literature so far.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty,General Mathematics,Statistics and Probability
Cited by
41 articles.
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