Minimax Results for IFRA Scale Alternatives
Minimax Results for IFRA Scale Alternatives
Recent results by Birnbaum, Esary and Marshall (1966), Barlow and Proschan (1967) and others suggest that the exponential models used be Epstein and Sobel (1953) and others for life testing problems should be extended to models in which the lifetimes have increasing failure rate average (IFRA) distributions. In this paper, …