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The preservation of stochastic orders under the formation of coherent systems is a relevant topic in the reliability theory. Several properties have been obtained under the assumption of identically distributed components. In this paper we obtain ordering preservation results for generalized distorted distributions (GDD) which, in particular, can be used to obtain preservation results for coherent systems with non-identically distributed components. We consider both the cases of independent and dependent components. The preservation results obtained here for GDD can also be applied to other statistical concepts.
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Navarro, J., del Águila, Y., Sordo, M.A. et al. Preservation of Stochastic Orders under the Formation of Generalized Distorted Distributions. Applications to Coherent Systems. Methodol Comput Appl Probab 18, 529–545 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11009-015-9441-z
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