On stochastic comparisons of series systems with heterogeneous dependent and independent location-scale family distributed components

Abstract

This paper carries out comparisons of heterogeneous series systems with location-scale family distributed components It is shown that the systems with dependent components in series sharing Archimedean copula with more dispersion in the location or scale parameters result in better performance in the sense of the usual stochastic order. Moreover, if the components are independently distributed, it is possible to obtain more generalized results as compared to the dependent set-up.