“…component lifetimes (see Samaniego (1985)) and extended to exchangeable components (see Kochar et al (1999), Navarro et al (2005), Navarro and Eryilmaz (2007), and Navarro et al (2008c)). Further references for various properties of the Samaniego signature, related concepts, and applications are, for instance, Boland et al (2003), Boland and Samaniego (2004b), Navarro and Shaked (2006), Khaledi and Shaked (2007), Navarro and Eryilmaz (2007), Navarro et al (2007aNavarro et al ( ), (2007bNavarro et al ( ), (2008aNavarro et al ( ), (2008b, and Navarro and Hernandez (2008). where X 1 and X 2 are independent random variables that follow a standard exponential distribution with mean 1, and V is a random variable independent of (X 1 , X 2 ) which is distributed according to a gamma distribution with shape parameter a > 0 and scale parameter b > 0.…”