Products being used within their end-product application can suffer systematic or random failures. Functional safety standards are designed to help influence the reduction of potential risks of ...

The capacity to anticipate the timing of environmental cues allows us to allocate sensory resources at the right time and prepare actions. Such anticipation requires knowledge of elapsed time and of ...

The joint cumulative hazard function associated with a bivariate distribution is estimated by its empirical version which generalizes Nelson-Aalen's estimator. A test of independence for bivariate ...

Journal of Applied Probability, Vol. 42, No. 3 (Sep., 2005), pp. 892-901 (10 pages) In this article, we consider the limit behavior of the hazard rate function of mixture distributions, assuming ...