| Article ID: | iaor20041543 |
| Country: | India |
| Volume: | 40 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 11 |
| End Page Number: | 23 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2003 |
| Journal: | OPSEARCH |
| Authors: | Iyer Srinivas |
| Keywords: | statistics: distributions |
A number of identities and inequalities are derived for coherent life functions and continuum structure functions of the Barlow–Wu type based on the coefficients of the simple form representation of the underlying binary structure function. These naturally lead to identities and inequalities for the mean time to failure and stochastic performance of these systems.