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Log-concave and concave distributions in reliability

โœ Scribed by Debasis Sengupta; Asok K. Nanda

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
103 KB
Volume
46
Category
Article
ISSN
0894-069X

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โœฆ Synopsis

Nonparametric classes of life distributions are usually based on the pattern of aging in some sense. The common parametric families of life distributions also feature monotone aging. In this paper we consider the class of log-concave distributions and the subclass of concave distributions. The work is motivated by the fact that most of the common parametric models of life distributions (including Weibull, Gamma, log-normal, Pareto, and Gompertz distributions) are log-concave, while the remaining life of maintained and old units tend to have a concave distribution. The classes of concave and log-concave distributions do not feature monotone aging. Nevertheless, these two classes are shown to have several interesting and useful properties. We examine the closure of these classes under a number of reliability operations, and provide sharp reliability bounds for nonmaintained and maintained units having life distribution belonging to these classes.

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