Preservation of some partial orderings under the formation of coherent systems

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 123-131

  Nanda, Asok K ^a   Jain, Kanchan ^a   Singh, Harshinder ^a  

^a PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

k out of n systems; Likelihood ratio order; Reversed hazard rate order; Stochastic order; Structure function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032135849     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(98)00043-1     Document Type: Article

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