Compound poisson approximation in systems reliability

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 251-264

  Barbour, A D ^a   Chryssaphinou, Ourania ^b   Roos, Małgorzata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOUND POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STEIN-CHEN METHOD; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SET THEORY; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0030105250     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6750(199603)43:2<251::AID-NAV6>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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