Gupta, Ramesh C.; Huang, Jie - In: Journal of Applied Statistics 41 (2014) 7, pp. 1548-1564
In life-testing and survival analysis, sometimes the components are arranged in series or parallel system and the number of components is initially unknown. Thus, the number of components, say <italic>Z</italic>, is considered as random with an appropriate probability mass function. In this paper, we model the...