| Article ID: | iaor19952358 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 11 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 219 |
| End Page Number: | 225 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 1995 |
| Journal: | Stochastic Models |
| Authors: | Gupta Ramesh C., Akman H. Olcay |
| Keywords: | failure functions |
In this paper the authors examine the behavior of the mean residual life function in the case of certain types of non-monotonic failure rates and give conditions for the validity of the reciprocity of the shape. Some examples are given to illustrate the results.