TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1987//
TI  - On the asymptotic behaviour of mean residual life function
JO  - Reliability engineering
A1  - Calabria, R.
A1  - Pulcini, G.
SP  - 165
EP  - 170
VL  - 19
IS  - 3
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 0143-8174
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0143-8174(87)90001-1
ID  - ref1
ER  -