• International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.125-140
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• 2008

The new better than used failure rate (NBUFR), Abouammoh and Ahmed (1988), and new better than average failure rate (NBAFR) Loh (1984) classes of life distributions, have been considered in the literature as natural weakenings of NBU (NWU) property. The paper considers testing exponentiality against strictly NBUFR (NBAFR) alternatives, or their duals, based on goodness of fit approach that is possible in life testing problems and that it results in simpler procedures that are asymptotically equivalent or better than standard ones. They may also have superior finite sample behavior. The asymptotic normality are proved. Powers, Pitman asymptotic efficiency and critical points are computed. Dealing with censored data case also studied. Practical applications of our tests in the medical sciences are present.

• 품질경영학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.152-161
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• 1994

In this paper we develop a test for alternatives representing decreasing mean residual life. The test statistic for decreasing mean residual life, $K_{1n}$, is a modified version of Hollander and Proschan's test $V^*$ and critical constants and large sample approximation are shown to make the test readily applicable. Consistency is also shown for the tests based on $K_{1n}$. And small sample powers for four alernatives are obtained.

• International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2006

The better mean residual life at $t_0\;(BMRL-t_0)$ class of life distribution is introduced by Kulasekara and Park (1987). They proved that the $BMRL-t_0$ class contains the DMRL class, but it is a proper subclass of the NBUE class. In this paper we develop a new family of tests for testing exponentiality against the $BMRL-t_0\;(WMRL-t_0)$ alternatives based on the goodness of fit approach. It is shown that the suggested test is better than the one introduced by Kulasekara and Park (1987) in the sense of Pitman asymptotic efficiency values.

• International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.113-129
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• 2003

Based on moments inequalities new testing procedures are derived for testing exponentiality against new renewal better than used (NRBU) and renewal new better than used (RNBU). These classes play an important role in formulating repair or replacement policies. The asymptotic Pitman efficiency of (NRBU) and (RNBU) testes are studied. Selected critical values are tabulated for sample sizes n=5(1) 50. The power estimates for some commonly used life distributions in reliability are also calculated. Some set of real data is used as an example to elucidate the use of the proposed test statistic for practical reliability analysis. The problem in case of right-censored data is also handled.

• International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.141-156
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• 2003

Nonparametric families of aging distributions have been the subject of investigation from long period of time and still. Both probabilistic and statistical properties of these distributions were studied for such families as new better than used renewal failure rate (NBURFR) and new better average renewal failure rate (NBARFR) classes. They have been studied by Abouammoh and Ahmed (1992). In the present work, moment inequalities are derived for the above mentioned families that demonstrate that if the mean life is finite for any of them then all higher order moments exist. Next, based on these inequalities, new test procedures for exponentiality against these families are studied showing that it is simple and hold high relative efficiency for some commonly used alternatives. Dealing with censored data case also studied.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.395-406
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 신뢰성분석에서 고려되는 NBU class에 관한 새로운 검정법을 제안하였다. 제안된 검정통계량은 순서통계량의 선형함수의 형태로 이루어져있고 대표본 뿐만 아니라 소표본에서도 쉽게 적용될 수 있음을 보였다. 소표본인 경우에는 Monte Carlo 시뮬레이션을 통하여 제안된 검정통계량의 검정력을, 대표본인 경우에는 점근상대효율을 Hollander와 Proschan(1972)의 검정통계량과 비교하여 보았으며 검정통계량의 일치성도 보였다.

• 한국신뢰성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신뢰성학회 2004년도 정기학술대회
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• pp.167-175
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• 2004

A nonparametric procedure is proposed to test the exponentiality against the hypothesis that one life distribution has a greater residual life times than the other life distribution. Such a hypothesis turns out to be equivalent to the one that one failure rate is greater than the other and so the proposed test works as a competitor to more IFR tests by Kochar (1979, 1981) and Cheng (1985). Our test statistic utilizes the U-statistics theory and a large sample nonpara metric test is established. The power of the proposed test is discussed by calculating the Pitman asymptotic relative efficiencies against several alter native hypotheses. A numerical example is presented to exemplify the proposed test.

• International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.139-151
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• 2010

The main objective of this study is to present a new approach to obtain moment inequalities for the new better than renewal used (NBRU) class of life distributions. In order to achieve our main objective, the moment inequalities for NBRU class of life distribution using the new approach has been derived and then a new test for testing exponentiality against NBRU class based on these inequalities has been constructed. Then we calculate the Pitman asymptotic efficiency for the proposed test using some alternative distributions and comparing it with the other tests. Moreover, we make a comparison between Pittman asymptotic efficiencies (PAE's) and PAE's of some other tests. A simulation study is conducted to calculate the upper critical values and the power estimate of the proposed test for some common alternatives. Finally, we apply the suggested test to some real data.

• International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2014

Let X and $X_t$ denote the lifetime and the residual life at age t, respectively. X is said to be a NBUL (new better than used in Laplace transform order) random variable if $X_t$ is smaller than X in Laplace order, i.e., $X_t{\leq}_{LT}X$. We propose a new test statistics for testing exponentiality versus NBUL class of life distribution. The tests by Hollender and Proschan (1975) and the generalized Hollender and Proschan test by Ains and Mitra (2011) are considered as special cases of the our of test statistics. Our proposed test statistics is simple, consistent and asymptotically normal. Efficiency and powers of the test statistics for some commonly used distributions in reliability are discussed. Finally, real examples are presented to illustrate the theoretical results.

• International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.141-153
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• 2006

In this paper, we present the U-Statistic test for testing exponentiality against new renewal better than used (NRBU) based on a goodness of fit approach. Selected critical values are tabulated for sample sizes n=5(1)30(10)50. The asymptotic Pitman relative efficiency relative to (NRBU) test given in the work of Mahmoud et all (2003) is studied. The power estimates of this test for some commonly used life distributions in reliability are also calculated. Some of real examples are given to elucidate the use of the proposed test statistic in the reliability analysis. The problem in case of right censored data is also handled.