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A moment inequality for decreasing (increasing) mean residual life distributions with hypothesis testing application

✍ Scribed by S.E. Abu-Youssef


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Weight
87 KB
Volume
57
Category
Article
ISSN
0167-7152

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✦ Synopsis


A moment inequality is derived for decreasing (increasing) mean residual life DMRL (IMRL) distributions. A new test statistic for testing exponentiality against DMRL (IMRL) is introduced based on this inequality. It is shown that the proposed test has high relative e ciency for some commonly used alternative and also enjoys a good power. Critical values are tabulated for sample sizes n = 5(1)50. A set of real data is used as an example to elucidate the use of the proposed test statistic for practical reliability analysis.