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The effect of intermittent exposure to risk on failure time distributions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Valerie Isham
Valerie Isham*
Affiliation:
Imperial College of Science and Technology, London
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Abstract

The relation is investigated between the distributions of the total time until failure and the time of exposure to risk until failure, for individuals who are at risk only intermittently during their lifetimes. A specific example is considered in the case of computer failures.

Keywords

FAILURE TIMESALTERNATE RISK AND NON-RISKCOMPUTER FAILURES
Type
Research Papers
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , June 1974 , pp. 310 - 319
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1974 

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References

Cox, D. R. and Lewis, P. A. W. (1966) The Statistical Analysis of Series of Events. Methuen, London.Google Scholar
Lewis, P. A. W. (1964) A branching Poisson process model for the analysis of computer failure patterns. J. R. Statist. Soc. B 26, 398–456.Google Scholar