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 ...

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 ...

Cox model marginal survivor function and pairwise correlation models are specified for a multivariate failure time vector. The corresponding mean and covariance structure for the cumulative baseline ...

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 ...