Article ID: | iaor19961840 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 41 |
Issue: | 7 |
Start Page Number: | 1117 |
End Page Number: | 1129 |
Publication Date: | Jul 1995 |
Journal: | Management Science |
Authors: | Lenk Peter J., Rao Ambar G. |
Keywords: | quality & reliability, stochastic processes |
The units of a heterogeneous population are subjected to shocks. A unit fails, or more generally, undergoes a change of state after a sufficient number of shocks. The shocks for a particular unit are assumed to arrive according to a time heterogeneous Poisson process. The time to a change of state, the transition time, for the unit has a generalized