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On Some Properties of the Multivariate Aging Classes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2009

S. P. Mukherjee  and
A. Chatterjee
S. P. Mukherjee
Affiliation:
Department of StatisticsUniversity of Calcutta, Calcutta-700 019, India
A. Chatterjee
Affiliation:
Department of StatisticsUniversity of Burdwan, Burdwan 713 104, West Bengal, India
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Abstract

Two multivariate aging classes described by Johnson and Kotz [7] and Zahedi [11] and known as vector multivariate increasing/decreasing hazard rate (VMIHR/VMDHR) class and decreasing/increasing multivariate mean remaining life of type 2 (DMMRL/IMMRL-2) class, respectively, as well as componentwise NBUE/NWUE class, are considered. The chain of implications between these classes and some characterizing properties of them with regard to the equilibrium distribution corresponding to a multivariate distribution function and concave (convex) transformation of the residual random vector have been established. The “closure under mixture’ property of the first two classes are also studied.

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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , October 1991 , pp. 523 - 534
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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