Comparison of system reliability functions under laboratory and common operating environments

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 536-545

  Woodham, Sara Anne ^a   Richards, Donald St P ^b  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Exponential distribution; Gamma distribution; Generalized gamma distribution; Inverse Gaussian distribution; m of n system; Mixtures of distributions; System reliability; Umbral calculus; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); ESTIMATION; FUNCTIONS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY;

EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0031360105     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021900200101160     Document Type: Article

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