Citation

Govil KK, Aggarwal KK. Reliab. Eng. 1983; 5(1): 47-51.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1983, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0143-8174(83)90018-5

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The evaluation of reliability function for normal, gamma and lognormal failure densities involves numerical integration. In order to evaluate mean residual life function one has to integrate the reliability function which involves numerical integration once again. However, with the help of an alternative relation suggested in this paper, it becomes possible to obtain explicit expressions for mean residual life for these densities.