Some aging properties of parallel and series systems with a random number of components

In this article, we study aging properties of parallel and series systems with a random number of components. We show that the decreasing likelihood ratio property is closed under the formation of random minima. We also show, by counterexamples, that other aging properties are not closed under the formation of random minima or maxima. Some mistakes in the literature are corrected. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 61: 238–243, 2014     

随机变量序列最大值函数几乎处处收敛

设X1,X2,…为独立同分布随机变量序列,具有公共分布函数F,F绝对连续并具有密度函数F′。在一定条件下得出了随机变量序列最大值函数的一类极限分布,并证明了随机变量序列最大值函数几乎处处收敛于其对应极限分布的密度函数之上。