Table of Contents:
  • Failure Rate and Mean Remaining Lifetime
  • More on Exponential Representation
  • Point Processes and Minimal Repair
  • Virtual Age and Imperfect Repair
  • Mixture Failure Rate Modelling
  • Limiting Behaviour of Mixture Failure Rates
  • 'Constructing' the Failure Rate
  • Failure Rate of Software
  • Demographic and Biological Applications.