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PRESERVATION OF RELIABILITY CLASSES UNDER MIXTURES OF RENEWAL PROCESSES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2007

F. G. Badía
Affiliation:
Departamento de Métodos EstadísticosUniversidad de ZaragozaZaragoza, Spain E-mail:[email protected]
C. Sangüesa
Affiliation:
Departamento de Métodos EstadísticosUniversidad de ZaragozaZaragoza, Spain E-mail:[email protected]

Abstract

In this work we provide sufficient conditions for the arrival times of a renewal process so that the number of its events occurring before a randomly distributed time, T, independent of the process preserves the aging properties of T.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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