MPIDR Working Paper
Stochastically ordered subpopulations and optimal burn-in procedure
Cha, J., Finkelstein, M. S.
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2009-030, 18 pages.
Rostock, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (November 2009)
Abstract
Burn-in is a widely used engineering method which is adopted to eliminate defective items before they are shipped to customers or put into the field operation. In the studies of burn-in, the assumption of bathtub shaped failure rate function is usually employed and optimal burn-in procedures are investigated. In this paper, however, we assume that the population is composed of two ordered subpopulations and optimal burn-in procedures are studied in this context. Two types of risks are defined and an optimal burn-in procedure, which minimizes the weighted risks is studied. The joint optimal solutions for the optimal burn-in procedure, which minimizes the mean number of repairs during the field operation, are also investigated.