Lorenzo, Edgardo; Malla, Ganesh; Mukerjee, Hari - In: Statistics & Probability Letters 83 (2013) 5, pp. 1346-1352
A lifetime X with survival function S, mean residual life function (MRL) M, and finite mean μ is said to be new better than used in expectation (NBUE) if M(t)≤μ for all t≥0. We propose a new estimator for S, based on a natural estimator of M defined under the NBUE restriction. This is much...
