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As mentioned in the introduction of Chapter 4, nonparametric families of distributions have mostly been studied in the context of reliability theory. The theory that has been developed for these families has thus involved the notion of components and systems, which might be mechanical, electrical, or hydraulic. But the same ideas often can be applied to biological systems also.
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Marshall, A.W., Olkin, I. (2007). Nonparametric Families: Origins in Reliability Theory. In: Life Distributions. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68477-2_5
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