We study systems with several components which are subject to different types of failures. Examples of such systems include twin engines of an airplane or the paired organs in a human body. We find that such a system, using conditional arguments, can be characterized as multivariate geometric distributions. We prove that the characterizations of the geometric model can be achieved using conditi...

This paper uses the concept of characterized model for bivariate extensions of univariate life distributions based on mean residual life properties. Different bivariate distributions can be generated from different choices of marginal distributions. The retention of univariate IMRL, DMRL, NBUE, NWUE, HNBUE and HNWUE class properties in the bivariate setup has been ensured along with results of ...

A class of bivariate distributions which generalizes the Sarmanov class is introduced. This class possesses a simple analytical form and desirable dependence properties. The admissible range for association parameter for given bivariate distributions are derived and the range for correlation coefficients are also presented.

Elsewhere, I have promoted the notion of (univariate continuous) “transformation of scale” (ToS) distributions which have densities of the form 2g(W(x)) where g is a symmetric distribution and W is a transformation function with a special property. Here, I develop particular bivariate (readily multivariate) ToS distributions. Univariate ToS distributions have a transformation of random variable...

For a one-dimensional probability distribution, the classical concept of central region as a real interquantile interval arises in all applied sciences. We can find applications, for instance, with dispersion, skewness and detection of outliers. All authors agree with the main problem in a multivariate generalization: there does not exist a natural ordering in n-dimensions, n > 1. Because of th...

Di Crescenzo and Longobardi (2002) has been proposed a measure of uncertainty related to past life namely past entropy. The present paper addresses the question of extending this concept to bivariate set-up and study some properties of the proposed measure. It is shown that the proposed measure uniquely determines the distribution function. Characterizations for some bivariate lifetime models a...