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Continuous Mixtures of Exponentials and IFR Gammas Having Bathtub-Shaped Failure Rates
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2016
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It can be seen that a mixture of an exponential distribution and a gamma distribution with increasing failure rate for the right choice of parameters can yield a distribution with a bathtub-shaped failure rate. In this paper we consider a continuous mixture of exponentials and a continuous mixture of gammas with increasing failure rates and show that the resulting mixture has a bathtub-shaped failure rate.
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