TABLES OF BOUNDS FOR DISTRIBUTIONS WITH MONOTONE HAZARD RATE.

This paper presents in a form convenient for applications a number of bounds for distributions with monotone hazard rate. These bounds, together with their proofs and various generalizations have been obtained by Barlow and Marshall (1964). However, many of them can be characterized only through solutions of transcendental equations, and machine calculation has been necessary to make them accessible. Section 2 gives a listing of the results, and those without explicit forms are tabulated. Section 3 lists various related bounds which are of interest for purposes of comparison, and for use when the hypothesis of monotone hazard rate is not satisfied. Applications of the bounds are discussed in Section 4, together with some numerical examples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]