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On a generalization of a model by Lindley and Singpurwalla

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Dipankar Bandyopadhyay*
Affiliation:
Bowling Green State University
Asit P. Basu*
Affiliation:
University of Missouri-Columbia, Missouri
*
Postal address: Department of Applied Statistics and Operations Research, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403–0267, USA.
∗∗Postal address: Department of Statistics, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.
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Abstract

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The flexibility of a notion considered by Lindley and Singpurwalla is pointed out. It is shown that their set-up can be generalized by looking at systems whose component life lengths are a priori dependent.

Type
Letters to the Editor
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1990 

Footnotes

Research sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Air Force Systems Command, USAF, under grant number AFOSR-89–0406. The US Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for Governmental purposes notwithstanding any copyright notation thereon.

References

Lindley, D. V. and Singpurwalla, N. D. (1986) Multivariate distributions for the life lengths of a system sharing a common environment. J. Appl. Prob. 23, 418431.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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