DOI: 10.1002/asmb.2239 ISSN:
Stochastic comparisons of series and parallel systems with generalized linear failure rate components
Longxiang Fang, N. Balakrishnan- Management Science and Operations Research
- General Business, Management and Accounting
- Modeling and Simulation
In this paper, we discuss stochastic comparisons of series and parallel systems comprising independent and heterogeneous generalized linear failure rate components. When a system with possibly different shape and scale parameters has its matrix of parameters changing to another matrix of parameters in a certain mathematical sense, we examine the usual stochastic order of the smallest and largest order statistics under such a setup. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.