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Stochastic comparison of parallel systems with heterogeneous exponential components
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 September 2017
Abstract
In this paper we provide a sufficient condition for mean residual life ordering of parallel systems with n ≥ 3 heterogeneous exponential components.
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60E15: Inequalities; stochastic orderings
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