Closed-form expressions for distribution of sum of exponential random variables

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 519-522

  Amari, Suprasad V ^a   Misra, Ravindra B ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Distribution of sum of erlang random variables; Exponential distribution; Failure rate; System reliability; Time to failure

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; SERVICE LIFE;

ERLANG RANDOM VARIANCES; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTED LIFETIMES; LEIBNITZ RULES;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031379272     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.693785     Document Type: Article

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