SOME RESULTS ON REVERSED HAZARD RATE

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nimai Kumar Chandra ◽  
Dilip Roy

In view of the growing importance of reversed hazard rate (RHR) in reliability analysis and stochastic modeling, we have considered different implicative relationships with respect to the monotonic behavior of RHR. In that context, a few characterizing properties have also been presented based on expected inactivity time.

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. A. Ahmad ◽  
M. Kayid

Two well-known orders that have been introduced and studied in reliability theory are defined via stochastic comparison of inactivity time: the reversed hazard rate order and the mean inactivity time order. In this article, some characterization results of those orders are given. We prove that, under suitable conditions, the reversed hazard rate order is equivalent to the mean inactivity time order. We also provide new characterizations of the decreasing reversed hazard rate (increasing mean inactivity time) classes based on variability orderings of the inactivity time of k-out-of-n system given that the time of the (n − k + 1)st failure occurs at or sometimes before time t ≥ 0. Similar conclusions based on the inactivity time of the component that fails first are presented as well. Finally, some useful inequalities and relations for weighted distributions related to reversed hazard rate (mean inactivity time) functions are obtained.


2005 ◽  
Vol 56 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 231-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nimai Kumar Chandra ◽  
Dilip Roy

Summary Growing importance of reversed hazard rate (RHR) and inactivity time, as measures of the life distributions, can be noticed from the recent literature on survival and reliability analysis. Keeping in mind tilis special role of RHR and the mean inactivity time, we have made an attempt to define different classes of distributions and study their implicative relationships. A probability bound has also been proposed for the increasing RHR class of distributions.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatih Kızılaslan

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the stochastic comparisons of the parallel system with independent heterogeneous Gumbel components and series and parallel systems with independent heterogeneous truncated Gumbel components in terms of various stochastic orderings.Design/methodology/approachThe obtained results in this paper are obtained by using the vector majorization methods and results. First, the components of series and parallel systems are heterogeneous and having Gumbel or truncated Gumbel distributions. Second, multiple-outlier truncated Gumbel models are discussed for these systems. Then, the relationship between the systems having Gumbel components and Weibull components are considered. Finally, Monte Carlo simulations are performed to illustrate some obtained results.FindingsThe reversed hazard rate and likelihood ratio orderings are obtained for the parallel system of Gumbel components. Using these results, similar new results are derived for the series system of Weibull components. Stochastic comparisons for the series and parallel systems having truncated Gumbel components are established in terms of hazard rate, likelihood ratio and reversed hazard rate orderings. Some new results are also derived for the series and parallel systems of upper-truncated Weibull components.Originality/valueTo the best of our knowledge thus far, stochastic comparisons of series and parallel systems with Gumbel or truncated Gumble components have not been considered in the literature. Moreover, new results for Weibull and upper-truncated Weibull components are presented based on Gumbel case results.


2012 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernesto J. Veres-Ferrer ◽  
Jose M. Pavía

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 622-639 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaofeng Da ◽  
Maochao Xu ◽  
Shouhuai Xu

In this paper, we propose a novel method for constructing upper bounds of the quasi-stationary distribution of SIS processes. Using this method, we obtain an upper bound that is better than the state-of-the-art upper bound. Moreover, we prove that the fixed point map Φ [7] actually preserves the equilibrium reversed hazard rate order under a certain condition. This allows us to further improve the upper bound. Some numerical results are presented to illustrate the results.


2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 1033-1043 ◽  
Author(s):  
Félix Belzunce ◽  
Carolina Martínez-Riquelme

AbstractAn upper bound for the hazard rate function of a convolution of not necessarily independent random lifetimes is provided, which generalizes a recent result established for independent random lifetimes. Similar results are considered for the reversed hazard rate function. Applications to parametric and semiparametric models are also given.


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