Li, Haijun; Shaked, Moshe - In: Stochastic Processes and their Applications 58 (1995) 2, pp. 205-216
In this paper we study the first passage time for a damage process to exceed a given threshold or for the maximal increment of this process to pass a certain critical value. Conditions under which this first passage time possesses the NBU, the IFRA or the IFR properties are studied. An...