“…Here, if the null hypothesis is true, that is when "1 and "1, then the times between failures are iid exponential random variables, and the process reduces to the homogeneous Poisson process. Bain and Engelhardt [10], Jani et al [11] and Muralidharan [12] also proposed tests for HPP against PLP. By putting "1 in (7) we get the test statistic for an HPP as Speci"cally, if we want to test H : ( "1, "1) vs H ( O1, "1), then the test procedure is to reject H for large values of Q* .…”