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In order to describe the behavior of a random quantity such as a life length, certain probabilistic descriptions have become standard. Although these are well known, a brief elementary outline is offered, with an emphasis on motivation. This will help set notation and terminology; for those not familiar with these foundations, it may add some depth of understanding.
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Marshall, A.W., Olkin, I. (2007). Some Topics from Probability Theory. In: Life Distributions. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68477-2_20
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