The IFR property for consecutive-k-out-o
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Lirong Cui
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Article
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2002
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Elsevier Science
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English
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For a consecutive-k-out-of-n system of components with independent and identically distributed increasing failure rate (IFR) lifetimes, Cui et al. (Probab. Engng. Inform. Sci. 9 (1995) 217) proved that for any ΓΏxed k, there exists an n k for which the system does not preserve IFR when n ΒΏ n k . On t