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Testing exponentiality against renewal new better than used in Laplace transform order: applications in reliability

Journal of the Egyptian Mathematical Society volume 27, Article number: 49 (2019) Cite this article

Abstract

In this paper, a new class of life distribution is proposed, named renewal new better than used in Laplace transform order (RNBUL). The test statistic for testing exponentiality versus (RNBUL) based on U-statistic is proposed. Pitman’s asymptotic efficiencies of the test and Pitman’s asymptotic relative efficiencies (PARE) are calculated. The percentiles of this test statistic are tabulated, and the powers of this test are estimated for some famous alternatives distributions in reliability such as Weibull, linear failure rate (LFR), and Gamma distributions. The problem regarding the right-censored data is also handled. Finally, some applications to elucidate the usefulness of the proposed test in reliability analysis are discussed.

Introduction and motivation

It is known that the theory of reliability is a branch of statistical technology that deals with general regularities. The importance of reliability appears in its dealing with the length of human beings, organisms’ structures, materials, etc. This theory is widely used in biological, engineering and medicine sciences. The reliability of effective origins has been considered by the works that participated in the reliability theory by [1, 2]. The statisticians and reliability analysts have used classifications of life distributions—based on some aspects of aging—to model survival data. The aging concepts function is to describe how a population of units or systems improves or deteriorates with age.

Aging properties is the means to define the life distribution classes. The exponential distribution is one of the most important aspects of such classifications, and it is always a member of each class. The notion of aging has great importance in many reliability analyses. On the other hand, many statistics have been developed for testing exponentiality against different aging alternatives.

The main classes of life distributional are based on new better than used NBU, new better than used failure rate NBUFR, new better than average failure rate NBAFR, new better than used renewal failure rate NBURFR, new better than renewal used NBRU, and exponentially better than used in Laplace transform order EBUL. Many researchers have introduced testing exponentiality against some classes of life distributions. For testing exponentiality versus NBU class, see [3]. A new class of life distributions named NBUCL has introduced by [4]. The classes NBAFR, NBARFR, NBURFR, and RNBRUE have proposed by [5,6,7,8], respectively.

Renewal classes

Consider a device (system or component) with lifetime T and continuous life distribution F(t), is put on the operation. When the failure occurs, the device will be replaced by a sequence of mutually independent devices. The spare devices are independent of the first device and identically distributed with the same life distributions F(t). In the long run, the remaining life distribution of the system under operation at time t is given by stationary renewal distribution as follows:

$$ {W}_F(t)={\mu_F}^{-1}\underset{0}{\overset{t}{\int }}\overline{F}(u) du,0\le t<\infty, $$

where \( {\mu}_F=\mu =\underset{0}{\overset{\infty }{\int }}\overline{F}(u) du \).The corresponding renewal survival function is

$$ {\overline{W}}_F(t)={\mu_F}^{-1}\underset{t}{\overset{\infty }{\int }}\overline{F}(u) du,0\le t<\infty, $$

For details, see [5, 9].

The NRBU, RNBU, NRBUE, and HNRBUE classes of life distributions have introduced by [10], and the relation between them has been studied. Testing exponentiality versus NRBU based on TTT-transform has been investigated by [11]. A new test statistic for testing exponentiality against RNBU class of life distribution based on U-statistic is studied by [12].

Definition 1

If X is a random variable with survival function \( \overline{F}(x) \), then X is said to have renewal new better (worth) than used property, denoted by RNBU (RNWU), if

$$ {\overline{W}}_F\left(x+t\right)\le \left(\ge \right){\overline{W}}_F(x){\overline{W}}_F(t)x\ge 0,t\ge 0. $$
(1.1)

Now, a new class of life distributions called renewal new better than used in Laplace transform order has been defined by [13].

Definition 2

X is said to be renewal new better than used in Laplace transform order (RNBUL) if:

$$ \underset{0}{\overset{\infty }{\int }}{e}^{- sx}{\overline{W}}_F\left(x+t\right) dx\le {\overline{W}}_F(t)\underset{0}{\overset{\infty }{\int }}{e}^{- sx}{\overline{W}}_F(t) dx,x\ge 0,t\ge 0. $$
(1.2)

Testing exponentiality against RNBUL

In this section, we test the null hypotheses H0 : F is exponential with mean μ against H1 : F belongs to RNBUL and not exponential.

The following lemma is essential for the development of our test statistic.

Lemma 2.1.

Let X be RNBUL random variable with distribution function F, then

$$ \frac{\mu }{s^3}-\frac{\mu }{s^3}E\left({e}^{- sX}\right)-\frac{\mu^2}{s^2}\le \frac{\mu_2}{2{s}^2}E\left({e}^{- sX}\right)-\frac{\mu_2}{2{s}^2}, $$
(2.1)

where

$$ E\left({e}^{- sX}\right)=\underset{0}{\overset{\infty }{\int }}{e}^{- sx} dF(x). $$

Proof.

Since F belongs to RNBUL, then from Definition 2 and Integrating both sides with respect to t over [0, ∞), gives

$$ \underset{0}{\overset{\infty }{\int }}\underset{0}{\overset{\infty }{\int }}{e}^{- sx}{\overline{W}}_F\left(x+t\right) dxdt\le \underset{0}{\overset{\infty }{\int }}{\overline{W}}_F(t)\underset{0}{\overset{\infty }{\int }}{e}^{- sx}{\overline{W}}_F(t) dxdt, $$
(2.2)

setting

$$ I=\underset{0}{\overset{\infty }{\int }}\underset{0}{\overset{\infty }{\int }}{e}^{- sx}{\overline{W}}_F\left(x+t\right) dxdt. $$

Therefore,

$$ I=\frac{1}{\mu }E\underset{0}{\overset{X}{\int }}\left[\frac{1}{s}X+\frac{1}{s^2}{e}^{-s\left(X-t\right)}-\frac{1}{s^2}-\frac{1}{s}t\right] dt, $$

Then,

$$ I=\frac{\mu_2}{2 s\mu}-\frac{1}{s^3\mu }E\left({e}^{- sX}\right)-\frac{1}{s^2}+\frac{1}{s^3\mu }. $$
(2.3)

Similarly,

$$ II=\underset{0}{\overset{\infty }{\int }}{\overline{W}}_F(t)\underset{0}{\overset{\infty }{\int }}{e}^{- sx}{\overline{W}}_F(t) dxdt, $$

Then,

$$ II=\frac{\mu_2}{2 s\mu}-\frac{\mu_2}{2{s}^2{\mu}^2}+\frac{\mu_2}{2{s}^2{\mu}^2}E\left({e}^{- sX}\right). $$
(2.4)

Substituting (2.3) and (2.4) in (2.2), we get (2.1). This completes the proof.

Empirical test statistic for RNBUL

Let X1, X2, Xn be a random sample from a population with a distribution function F ∈ RNBUL class. The measure of departure from exponentiality δ(s) is determined from the previous lemma, where

$$ \delta (s)=\frac{\mu_2}{2{s}^2}E\left({e}^{- sX}\right)-\frac{\mu_2}{2{s}^2}+\frac{\mu }{s^3}E\left({e}^{- sX}\right)+\frac{\mu^2}{s^2}-\frac{\mu }{s^3}. $$
(2.5)

Note that under H0 : δ(s) = 0, and H1 : δ(s) > 0.Let \( \hat{\delta}(s) \) be the empirical estimate of δ(s), where

$$ \hat{\delta}(s)=\frac{1}{n\left(n-1\right)}\sum \limits_{i=1}^n\sum \limits_{j=1}^n\left[\frac{{X_i}^2}{2{s}^2}{e}^{-s{X}_j}-\frac{{X_i}^2}{2{s}^2}+\frac{X_i}{s^3}{e}^{-s{X}_j}+\frac{X_i{X}_j}{s^2}-\frac{X_i}{s^3}\right], $$

To make the test scale-invariant under H0,we use \( \hat{\Delta }(s)=\frac{\hat{\delta}(s)}{{\overline{X}}^2} \), where \( \overline{X}=\frac{1}{n}\sum \limits_{i=1}^n{X}_i \) is the sample mean. Then,

$$ \hat{\Delta }(s)=\frac{1}{n\left(n-1\right){\overline{X}}^2}\sum \limits_{i=1}^n\sum \limits_{j=1}^n\left[\frac{{X_i}^2}{2{s}^2}{e}^{-s{X}_j}-\frac{{X_i}^2}{2{s}^2}+\frac{X_i}{s^3}{e}^{-s{X}_j}+\frac{X_i{X}_j}{s^2}-\frac{X_i}{s^3}\right]. $$
(2.6)

Setting

$$ \phi \left({X}_1,{X}_2\right)=\frac{{X_1}^2}{2{s}^2}{e}^{-s{X}_2}-\frac{{X_1}^2}{2{s}^2}+\frac{X_1}{s^3}{e}^{-s{X}_2}+\frac{X_1{X}_2}{s^2}-\frac{X_1}{s^3}, $$
(2.7)

and defining the symmetric kernel

$$ \psi \left({X}_1,{X}_2\right)=\frac{1}{2!}\sum \phi \left({X}_1,{X}_2\right), $$

where the summation is over all arrangements of X1, X2, Xn, then \( \hat{\delta}(s) \) is equivalent to U-statistic

$$ {U}_n=\frac{1}{\left(\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{n}{2}\right)}\sum \phi \left({X}_1,{X}_2\right). $$

The following theorem summarizes the asymptotic properties of the test.

Theorem 2.1

  1. (i)

    \( As\ n\to \infty, \sqrt{n}\left[\hat{\Delta }(s)-\delta (s)\right] \)is asymptotically normal with mean zero and variance

$$ {\sigma}^2(s)=\mathrm{Var}\left\{\left(E\left({e}^{- sX}\right)-1\right)\left(\frac{X^2}{2{s}^2}-\frac{X}{s^3}\right)+\left({e}^{- sX}-1\right)\left(\frac{\mu_2}{2{s}^2}+\frac{\mu }{s^3}\right)+\frac{2 X\mu}{s^2}\right\}. $$
(2.8)
  1. (ii)

    Under H0 the variance reduced to

$$ {\sigma_0}^2=\frac{2}{{\left(1+s\right)}^3\left(1+2s\right)},s\ne -1,-\frac{1}{2}. $$
(2.9)

Proof:

Using standard U-statistics theory, see [14], and by direct calculations, we can find the mean and the variance as follows:

$$ {\sigma}^2=\mathrm{Var}\left\{\eta (X)\right\}, $$

Where η(X) = η1(X) + η2(X),

$$ {\eta}_1(X)=E\left[\phi \left({X}_1,{X}_2\right)\left|{X}_1\right.\right] $$
$$ =\frac{X^2}{2{s}^2}E\left({e}^{- sX}\right)-\frac{X^2}{2{s}^2}+\frac{X}{s^3}E\left({e}^{- sX}\right)+\frac{X\mu}{s^2}-\frac{X}{s^3} $$

and

$$ {\eta}_2(X)=E\left[\phi \left({X}_1,{X}_2\right)\left|{X}_2\right.\right] $$
$$ =\frac{\mu_2}{2{s}^2}{e}^{- sX}-\frac{\mu_2}{2{s}^2}+\frac{\mu }{s^3}{e}^{- sX}+\frac{X\mu}{s^2}-\frac{\mu }{s^3}, $$

Therefore,

$$ \eta (X)=\left(E\left({e}^{- sX}\right)-1\right)\left(\frac{X^2}{2{s}^2}-\frac{X}{s^3}\right)+\left({e}^{- sX}-1\right)\left(\frac{\mu_2}{2{s}^2}+\frac{\mu }{s^3}\right)+\frac{2 X\mu}{s^2} $$

and Eq. (2.8) is deduced.

Under H0, the mean μ0 and the variance σ02 are given by

$$ {\mu}_0=E\left(\ {\eta}_0(X)\right)=0, $$
$$ {\sigma_0}^2=E\left[\ {\left({\eta}_0(X)\right)}^2\right], $$

Then, (2.9) is obtained.

The Pitman asymptotic efficiency

To access the quality of the test, Pitman asymptotic efficiencies (PAE’s) are computed and compared with some other tests for the following alternative:

  1. i.

    The Weibull family:

    $$ {\overline{F}}_1(x)={e}^{-{x}^{\theta }},\kern0.5em x\ge 0,\theta \ge 1. $$
  2. ii.

    The linear failure rate family:

    $$ {\overline{F}}_2(x)={e}^{-x-\frac{\theta }{2}{x}^2},x\ge 0,\theta \ge 0. $$
  3. iii.

    The Makeham family:

    $$ {\overline{F}}_3(x)={e}^{\left[-x-\theta \left(x+{e}^{-x}+1\right)\right]},x\ge 0,\theta \ge 0. $$

Note that for θ = 1, F1 goes to exponential distribution and for θ = 0, F2 and F3 reduce to the exponential distributions. The PAE is defined by

$$ \mathrm{PAE}\left(\hat{\Delta }(s)\right)=\frac{1}{\sigma_0}{\left[\frac{d}{d\theta}\delta (s)\right]}_{\theta \to {\theta}_0}, $$

when s = 2, this leads to

$$ \mathrm{PAE}\left[\hat{\Delta }(2),\mathrm{Weibull}\right]=0.618,\mathrm{PAE}\left[\hat{\Delta }(2),\mathrm{LFR}\right]=0.915 $$

and \( \mathrm{PAE}\left[\hat{\Delta }(2),\mathrm{Makeham}\right]=0.172, \) where σ0(2) = 0.121716.The Pitman asymptotic relative efficiency (PARE) of our test \( \hat{\Delta }(s) \) comparing to δ1, δ2, δ3, and δ4 which were studied by [6, 8, 15, 16], respectively, is calculated where

$$ \mathrm{PARE}\left({T}_1,{T}_2\right)=\frac{\mathrm{PAE}\left({T}_1\right)}{\mathrm{PAE}\left({T}_2\right)}. $$

We can see from Table 1 that our test statistic \( \hat{\Delta }(s) \) for RNBUL is more efficient than the other four cases.

Table 1 The asymptotic relative efficiencies for our test versus δi, i = 1, 2, 3, 4
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Monte Carlo null distribution critical values

In this section, we have simulated the upper percentile points for 90th, 95th, 98th, and 99th based on 5000 simulated samples of sizes n = 5(5)50,11 from the standard exponential distribution by using MATHEMATICA 10.

It can be noticed from Table 2 and Fig. 1 that the critical values are increasing as confidence levels increase and decrease as the sample size increases

Table 2 The upper percentile of \( \hat{\Delta }(s) \) with 5000 replications at s = 2
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Fig 1
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Relation between critical values, sample size and confidence levels

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Power estimates of the test \( \hat{\Delta }(s) \)

The power of the statistic \( \hat{\Delta }(s) \) will be carried out using significant level α = 0.05 with appropriate parameter values of θ at n = 10, 20, and 30 for 3 frequently used distributions such as Weibull, linear failure rate, and Gamma distributions based on 5000 simulated samples tabulated in Table 3.

Table 3. Power estimates of the statistic \( \hat{\Delta }(s) \)
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From Table 3, we see that our test \( \hat{\Delta }(s) \) has very good power for all alternatives.

Testing for censored data

A test statistic is proposed to test H0 versus H1 in the case of randomly right-censored (RR-C) data in many practical experiments; the censored data are the only information available in a life-testing model or in a clinical study where patients may be lost (censored) before the completion of a study. This experimental situation can formally be modeled as follows: suppose n units are put on test, and X1, X2, …, Xn denote their true-lifetime which are independent, identically distributed (i.i.d.) according to continuous life distribution F. Let Y1, Y2, …, Yn be (i.i.d.) according to continuous life distribution G. Xs and Ys are assumed to be independent. In the RR-C model, we observe the pairs (Zj, δj), j = 1, 2, …, n where Zj = min(Xj, Yj) and

$$ {\delta}_j=\left\{\begin{array}{c}1\ if\ {Z}_j={X}_j\ \left(j\mathrm{th}\ \mathrm{observation}\ \mathrm{is}\ \mathrm{uncensored}\right)\\ {}0\ if\ {Z}_j={Y}_j\ \left(j\mathrm{th}\ \mathrm{observation}\ \mathrm{is}\ \mathrm{censored}\right)\end{array}\right.. $$

Let Z(0) = 0 < Z(1) < Z(2) < … < Z(n) denote the ordered Zs and δ(j) is the δj corresponding to Z(j). Using censored data (Zj, δj), j = 1, 2, …, n [17]. proposed the product-limit estimator,

$$ {\overline{F}}_n(X)=\prod \limits_{\left[j:{Z}_{(j)}\le X\right]}{\left\{\left(n-j\right)\left(n-j+1\right)\right\}}^{\delta_{(j)}},X\in \left[0,{Z}_{(j)}\right]. $$

Now, for testing H0 : δ(s) = 0 against H1 : δ(s) > 0, using randomly right-censored data, we propose the following test statistic

$$ {\hat{\Delta }}_c(s)=\frac{1}{\mu^2}\left[\left(\frac{\mu_2}{2{s}^2}+\frac{\mu }{s^3}\right)E\left({e}^{- sX}\right)-\frac{\mu_2}{2{s}^2}+\mu \left(\frac{\mu }{s^2}-\frac{1}{s^3}\right)\right]. $$
(6.1)

For computational purposes, (6.1) may be rewritten as

$$ {\hat{\Delta }}_c(s)=\frac{1}{\varPhi^2}\left[\left(\frac{\varOmega }{2{s}^2}+\frac{\varPhi }{s^3}\right)\varTheta -\frac{\varOmega }{2{s}^2}+\varPhi \left(\frac{\varPhi }{s^2}-\frac{1}{s^3}\right)\right], $$
(6.2)

where

$$ \varPhi =\sum \limits_{k=1}^n\left[\prod \limits_{m=1}^{k-1}{C}_m^{\delta (m)}\left({Z}_{(k)}-{Z}_{\left(k-1\right)}\right)\right], $$
$$ \varOmega =2\sum \limits_{i=1}^n\left[\prod \limits_{v=1}^{i-1}{Z}_{(i)}{C}_v^{\delta (v)}\left({Z}_{(i)}-{Z}_{\left(i-1\right)}\right)\right], $$
$$ \varTheta =\sum \limits_{j=1}^n{e}^{-s{Z}_{(j)}}\left[\prod \limits_{p=1}^{j-2}{C}_p^{\delta (p)}-\prod \limits_{p=1}^{j-1}{C}_p^{\delta (p)}\right], $$

and

$$ dx=\left({Z}_{(j)}-{Z}_{\left(j-1\right)}\right),{C}_k=\left[n-k\right]{\left[n-k+1\right]}^{-1}. $$

Table 4 below gives the critical values percentiles of \( {\hat{\Delta }}_c(s) \) test for sample size n = 5(5)30(10), 81, 86.

Table 4. The upper percentile of \( {\hat{\Delta }}_c(s) \) with 5000 replications at s = 2
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It can be noticed from Table 4 and Fig. 2 that the critical values are increasing as confidence levels increase and decrease as the sample size increases

Fig 2
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Relation between critical values, sample size and confidence levels

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Power estimates of the test \( {\hat{\Delta }}_c(s) \)

The power of the statistic \( {\hat{\Delta }}_c(s) \) is considered at the significant level α = 0.05 with suitable parameter values of θ at n = 10, 20, and 30 for some of the most commonly used distributions such as Weibull and linear failure rate distributions based on 5000 simulated samples tabulated in Table 5.

Table 5 Power estimates of the statistic \( {\hat{\Delta }}_c(s) \)
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From Table 5, we see that our test \( {\hat{\Delta }}_c(s) \) has good power for all alternatives.

Some applications

In this section, we apply the test on some datasets to elucidate the applications of the RNBUL in both non-censored data and censored data at 95% confidence level.

Complete data

Dataset #1

Consider the dataset given in [18] and have been used in [19]. This dataset gives the times between arrivals of 25 customers at a facility. In this case, we get \( \hat{\Delta }(s)=0.088924 \)greater than the critical value of Table 2. Hence, we reject the null hypothesis H0 and accept H1 which states that the data have RNBUL property.

Dataset #2

Consider the data-set given in [20] which represents failure times in hours, for a specific type of electrical insulation in an experiment in which the insulation was subjected to a continuously increasing voltage stress, then we get\( \hat{\Delta }(s)=0.0242465 \) which is less than the critical value of Table 2. Hence, we accept the null hypothesis H0.

Censored data

Dataset #3

Consider the dataset in [21]. These data represent 81 survival times of patients of melanoma. Out of these, 46 represents the whole times (non-censored data). We get \( {\hat{\Delta }}_c(s)=-1.17837\times {10}^{87} \) which is less than the critical value of Table 4 at 95% upper percentile. Hence, we accept the null hypothesis H0.

Dataset #4

Consider the dataset given in [22] for lung cancer patients. These data consist of 86 survival times (in months) with 22 right-censored. In this case, we get \( {\hat{\Delta }}_c(s)=-4.18907\times {10}^{85} \)which is less than the critical value of Table 4 at 95% upper percentile. Hence, we accept the null hypothesis H0.

Availability of data and materials

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Abbreviations

EBUL:

Exponential better than used in Laplace transform order

LFR:

Linear failure rate

NBAFR:

New better than average failure rate

NBARFR:

New better than average renewal failure rate

NBRU:

New better than renewal used

NBU:

New better than used

NBUCL:

New better than used in increasing convex in Laplace transform order

NBURFR:

New better than used renewal failure rate

PARE:

Pitman’s asymptotic relative efficiencies

RNBRUE:

Renewal new better than renewal used in expectation

RNBUL:

Renewal new better than used in Laplace transform order

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Mahmoud, M.A.W., Diab, L.S. & Radi, D.M. Testing exponentiality against renewal new better than used in Laplace transform order: applications in reliability. J Egypt Math Soc 27, 49 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s42787-019-0044-7

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Keywords

  • Classes of life distributions
  • RNBUL
  • Testing Exponentiality
  • U test
  • Pitman asymptotic efficiency
  • Censored data

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