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In [5], many inequalities for NBUE and NWUE life distributions are given. But, since there are some basic observations which do not hold (see Section 1 for details), many results obtained in [5] are not true. In this note we propose some remedies and give some new results.
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The proect supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
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Cheng, K., He, Z. Reliability bounds for NBUE and NWUE distributions. Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica 5, 81–88 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02006189
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02006189