Accession Number:

ADA065327

Title:

Extreme Points of the Class of Discrete Decreasing Failure Rate Life Distributions.

Descriptive Note:

Interim rept.,

Corporate Author:

FLORIDA STATE UNIV TALLAHASSEE DEPT OF STATISTICS

Personal Author(s):

• Langberg,Naftali A.
• Leon,Ramon V.
• Proschan ,Frank
• Lynch,James

Report Date:

1978-11-01

Pagination or Media Count:

20.0

Abstract:

We show that the class of discrete decreasing failure rate DFR life distributions is a convex class. We then obtain the extreme points of this class. Finally we show how to represent any discrete DFR distribution as a mixture of these extreme points. Author

Descriptors:

• *FAILURE
• *NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS
• RATES
• DISCRETE DISTRIBUTION
• RANGE(EXTREMES)

Subject Categories:

• Statistics and Probability
• Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering and Control of Production Systems

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE