Determination of Hazard Rate Shape for Discrete Lives

There have been several works aimed at the determination of the shape of the hazard rate when lifetime is treated as continuous. In the present work, we establish some theorems, that enable the identification of the nature of discrete hazard rates. Further, some applications of the results to construct new discrete bathtub-shaped distributions are also proposed.

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