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‘Understanding the shape of the mixture failure rate’ by Maxim Finkelstein: Discussion 1

‘Understanding the shape of the mixture failure rate’ by Maxim Finkelstein: Discussion 1 The George Washington University and Defense Advance Research Projects Agency, Washington, DC, U.S.A. 1. PREAMBLE Maxim Finkelstein has done a respectable job pulling together the existing literature on mixtures of failure rates and their manifestations, and in so doing has provided valuable service to the profession. He has also contributed to the literature on this topic, especially in the arena of asymptotic behavior. The paper has its share of typos and omissions, which is to be expected in papers of this size. However, these slips are not serious, and an informed reader can easily dismiss them as an inescapable feature of writing expository and survey papers. The litmus test of review papers is a matter of scope, coverage, and exposition. Will most readers learn something new? In my own case, I did (specifically, Parrondo’s paradox in reliability theory) and I presume that so will the others. Thus, the paper has served some good purposes. I have reservations about this paper and these pertain to the scientific merit of the general topic discussed. For this, the paper’s author, Finkelstein, should not be the sole one to bear the blame. Recently, the matter of the shape of the failure rate http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry Wiley

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The George Washington University and Defense Advance Research Projects Agency, Washington, DC, U.S.A. 1. PREAMBLE Maxim Finkelstein has done a respectable job pulling together the existing literature on mixtures of failure rates and their manifestations, and in so doing has provided valuable service to the profession. He has also contributed to the literature on this topic, especially in the arena of asymptotic behavior. The paper has its share of typos and omissions, which is to be expected in papers of this size. However, these slips are not serious, and an informed reader can easily dismiss them as an inescapable feature of writing expository and survey papers. The litmus test of review papers is a matter of scope, coverage, and exposition. Will most readers learn something new? In my own case, I did (specifically, Parrondo’s paradox in reliability theory) and I presume that so will the others. Thus, the paper has served some good purposes. I have reservations about this paper and these pertain to the scientific merit of the general topic discussed. For this, the paper’s author, Finkelstein, should not be the sole one to bear the blame. Recently, the matter of the shape of the failure rate

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