A note on the steady state downtime distribution of a monotone system

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 269-276

  Aven, Terje ^a   Haukås, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

DOWNTIME DISTRIBUTION; MONOTONE SYSTEM;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 0032010631     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(97)00082-3     Document Type: Article

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