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A Universal Distribution for Component Failure Times

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It is proposed to use a mixture of Weibull and exponential distributions to describe component reliability on the basis of a realistic model for resource consumption.

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Grodzenskii, S.Y., Domrachev, V.G. A Universal Distribution for Component Failure Times. Measurement Techniques 45, 710–713 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020951524139

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