Author(s)

Parameshwar V.Pandit, Sujatha Inginashetty

Department of Statistics, Bangalore University, Bangalore-560056, India.
Department of Statistics, Gulbarga University, Gulbarga, India.

In this paper, a problem of testing whether one life distribution possesses ‘more IFR’ property than the other is considered. A new test procedure is proposed and the distribution of the test statistic is studied. The performance of the procedure is evaluated in terms of Pitman asymptotic relative efficiency. The consistency property of the test procedure is established. It is observed that the new procedure is better than the existing procedure in the literature.

'More IFR' Property; U-statistic; Pitman ARE

P. V.Pandit and S. Inginashetty, "A Note on Detecting “More IFR-ness” Property of Life Distributions," Open Journal of Statistics, Vol. 2 No. 4, 2012, pp. 443-446. doi: 10.4236/ojs.2012.24055.