Stochastic comparisons of residual lifetimes and inactivity times of coherent systems with dependent identically distributed components

2015 ◽  
Vol 240 (2) ◽  
pp. 425-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nitin Gupta ◽  
Neeraj Misra ◽  
Somesh Kumar
2014 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 990-998 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Parvardeh ◽  
N. Balakrishnan

In this paper we derive mixture representations for the reliability functions of the conditional residual life and inactivity time of a coherent system with n independent and identically distributed components. Based on these mixture representations we carry out stochastic comparisons on the conditional residual life, and the inactivity time of two coherent systems with independent and identical components.


2013 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 848-860 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nitin Gupta

Under the assumption of independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) components, the problem of the stochastic comparison of a coherent system having used components and a used coherent system has been considered. Necessary and sufficient conditions on structure functions have been provided for the stochastic comparison of a coherent system having used/inactive i.i.d. components and a used/inactive coherent system. As a consequence, for r-out-of-n systems, it has been shown that systems having used i.i.d. components stochastically dominate used systems in the likelihood ratio ordering.


2013 ◽  
Vol 50 (03) ◽  
pp. 848-860 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nitin Gupta

Under the assumption of independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) components, the problem of the stochastic comparison of a coherent system having used components and a used coherent system has been considered. Necessary and sufficient conditions on structure functions have been provided for the stochastic comparison of a coherent system having used/inactive i.i.d. components and a used/inactive coherent system. As a consequence, forr-out-of-nsystems, it has been shown that systems having used i.i.d. components stochastically dominate used systems in the likelihood ratio ordering.


Author(s):  
Ebrahim Amini-Seresht ◽  
Maryam Kelkinnama ◽  
Yiying Zhang

This paper discusses stochastic comparisons for the residual and past lifetimes of coherent systems with dependent and identically distributed (d.i.d.) components under random monitoring in terms of the hazard rate, the reversed hazard rate, and the likelihood ratio orders. Some stochastic comparisons results are also established on the residual lifetimes of coherent systems under random observation times when all of the components are alive at that time. Sufficient conditions are established in terms of the aging properties of the components and the distortion functions induced from the system structure and dependence among components lifetimes. Numerical examples are provided to illustrate the theoretical results as well.


2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-173
Author(s):  
Ebrahim Amini-Seresht ◽  
Baha-Eldin Khaledi ◽  
Subhash Kochar

AbstractWe consider coherent systems with independent and identically distributed components. While it is clear that the system’s life will be stochastically larger when the components are replaced with stochastically better components, we show that, in general, similar results may not hold for hazard rate, reverse hazard rate, and likelihood ratio orderings. We find sufficient conditions on the signature vector for these results to hold. These results are combined with other well-known results in the literature to get more general results for comparing two systems of the same size with different signature vectors and possibly with different independent and identically distributed component lifetimes. Some numerical examples are also provided to illustrate the theoretical results.


2014 ◽  
Vol 51 (04) ◽  
pp. 990-998
Author(s):  
A. Parvardeh ◽  
N. Balakrishnan

In this paper we derive mixture representations for the reliability functions of the conditional residual life and inactivity time of a coherent system with n independent and identically distributed components. Based on these mixture representations we carry out stochastic comparisons on the conditional residual life, and the inactivity time of two coherent systems with independent and identical components.


2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 1152-1169
Author(s):  
Rongfang Yan ◽  
Jiandong Zhang ◽  
Yiying Zhang

AbstractIn this paper we study the allocation problem of relevations in coherent systems. The optimal allocation strategies are obtained by implementing stochastic comparisons of different policies according to the usual stochastic order and the hazard rate order. As special cases of relevations, the load-sharing and minimal repair policies are further investigated. Sufficient (and necessary) conditions are established for various stochastic orderings. Numerical examples are also presented as illustrations.


2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 348-376
Author(s):  
Nil Kamal Hazra ◽  
Neeraj Misra

AbstractRelative ageing describes how one system ages with respect to another. The ageing faster orders are used to compare the relative ageing of two systems. Here, we study ageing faster orders in the hazard and reversed hazard rates. We provide some sufficient conditions for one coherent system to dominate another with respect to ageing faster orders. Further, we investigate whether the active redundancy at the component level is more effective than that at the system level with respect to ageing faster orders, for a coherent system. Furthermore, a used coherent system and a coherent system made out of used components are compared with respect to ageing faster orders.


Author(s):  
Maryam Kelkinnama

This paper is concerned with the problem of stochastic comparisons between the lifetimes of two coherent systems with active redundancy. For this purpose, we consider both the active redundancy at the system level and the redundancy at the component level. We assume that the original components are identically distributed and possibly dependent. It is also assumed that for each component, there are [Formula: see text] redundant components with possibly different lifetime distributions which follow the proportional hazards (reversed hazards) model. Under some conditions on the domination function of the system, we compare the lifetimes of the systems based on majorization orders between the parameter vectors of the proportionality of the component lifetimes. We also give sufficient conditions under which adding more redundant components imply the system improvement.


Author(s):  
Nil Kamal Hazra ◽  
Neeraj Misra

The relative aging is an important notion which is useful to measure how a system ages relative to another one. Among the existing stochastic orders, there are two important orders describing the relative aging of two systems, namely, aging faster orders in the cumulative hazard and the cumulative reversed hazard rate functions. In this paper, we give some sufficient conditions under which one coherent system ages faster than another one with respect to the aforementioned stochastic orders. Further, we show that the proposed sufficient conditions are satisfied for k-out-of-n systems. Moreover, some numerical examples are given to illustrate the applications of proposed results.


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