A reliability comparison of basic systems using hazard rate functions

Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis

Volumn 13, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 377-384

  Boland, Philip J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Hazard rate function; Hazard rate order; k out of n systems; Redundancy; Simple and indirect majority systems

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONS; HAZARDS; RANDOM PROCESSES; REDUNDANCY;

HAZARD RATE FUNCTIONS; HAZARD RATE ORDER;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0031220670     PISSN: 87550024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0747(199709/12)13:3/4<377::aid-asm331>3.0.co;2-8     Document Type: Review

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