Testing Whether New is Better than Used
Testing Whether New is Better than Used
A $U$-statistic $J_n$ is proposed for testing the hypothesis $H_0$ that a new item has stochastically the same life length as a used item of any age (i.e., the life distribution $F$ is exponential), against the alternative hypothesis $H_1$ that a new item has stochastically greater life length $(\bar{F}(x)\bar{F}(y) \geqq …