By Mohamed Abdel-Hameed

​This publication covers Lévy strategies and their functions within the contexts of reliability and garage. unique cognizance is paid to lifestyles distributions and the upkeep of units topic to degradation; estimating the parameters of the degradation strategy is additionally mentioned, as is the upkeep of dams topic to Lévy enter.

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Let ↓ p(t, x) be the probability transition function of the process X . For any positive t, x we let ⎩∧ _ p(t, z)G(x + z)dz f (t, x) = 0 For any positive t, , we have ⎩∧ _ H (t + )= p(t + _ , x)G(x)d x 0 ⎩∧ = p( , x) f (t, x)d x, 0 ↓ where the last equality follows since X has stationary independent increments. From the last equality, it follows D( , t1 , t2 ) ≥ 0 if the determinant f t1 t2 x 0 ⎧ ⎧ ⎧ f (t1 , x) f (tx , x) ⎧ ⎧ ⎧ =⎧ f (t1 , 0) f (t2 , 0) ⎧ is positive. 5 we have f t1 t2 x 0 ⎧ _ ⎧⎧ _ ⎩⎩ ⎧ ⎧ p(t1 , z 1 ) p(t1 , z 2 ) ⎧ ⎧⎧ G(x + z 1 ) G(x + z 2 ) ⎧⎧ ⎧ ⎧ _ _ = ⎧.

For any positive t, x we let ⎩∧ _ p(t, z)G(x + z)dz f (t, x) = 0 For any positive t, , we have ⎩∧ _ H (t + )= p(t + _ , x)G(x)d x 0 ⎩∧ = p( , x) f (t, x)d x, 0 ↓ where the last equality follows since X has stationary independent increments. From the last equality, it follows D( , t1 , t2 ) ≥ 0 if the determinant f t1 t2 x 0 ⎧ ⎧ ⎧ f (t1 , x) f (tx , x) ⎧ ⎧ ⎧ =⎧ f (t1 , 0) f (t2 , 0) ⎧ is positive. 5 we have f t1 t2 x 0 ⎧ _ ⎧⎧ _ ⎩⎩ ⎧ ⎧ p(t1 , z 1 ) p(t1 , z 2 ) ⎧ ⎧⎧ G(x + z 1 ) G(x + z 2 ) ⎧⎧ ⎧ ⎧ _ _ = ⎧.

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