Abstract
In the study of reliability of the technical systems and subsystems, parallel systems play a very important role. In the present paper, we consider a parallel system consisting of n identical components with independent lifetimes having a common distribution function F. It is assumed that at time t the system has failed. Under these conditions, we obtain the mean past lifetime (MPL) of the components of the system. Some properties of MPL are studied. It is shown that the underlying distribution function F can be recovered from the proposed MPL. Also, a comparison between two parallel systems are made based on their MPLs in the case where the components of the system are ordered in terms of reversed hazard rate. Finally a characterization of the uniform distribution is given based on MPL.
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