Representations of the inactivity time for coherent systems with heterogeneous components and some ordered properties.

In this paper, we present several useful mixture representations for the reliability function of the inactivity time of systems with heterogeneous components based on order statistics, signatures and mean reliability functions. Some stochastic comparisons of inactivity times between two systems are discussed. These results form nice extensions of some existing results for the case when the components are independent and identically distributed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]