Aging properties of the additive and proportional hazard mixing models

Abstract We carried out a study of the aging characteristics in two mixing models having additive and proportional hazards, respectively. The relation between aging properties of such mixtures and that of an exponential mixture is described. The effect of mixing on the properties of the stochastic aging as well as the relation between the mixture and the distributions within are also analyzed.

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