%0 Journal Article
%T On the asymptotic behaviour of mean residual life function
%J Reliability engineering
%D 1987
%A Calabria, R.
%A Pulcini, G.
%V 19
%N 3
%P 165-170
%X The mean residual life (MRL) function is very useful in defining a good decision-making criterion for replacement policies and in solving burn-in problems. Furthermore it provides a more descriptive measure of the ageing process than the hazard rate.In this paper a useful relationship between the asymptotic values of the mean residual life function and the hazard rate of a generic continuous distribution function is derived. It is also shown that the derivative of the MRL function of a positive random variable always tends to zero as t → ∞.<p />
%G 
%I Elsevier Publishing
%@ 0143-8174
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0143-8174(87)90001-1