Asymptotic and monotonicity properties of some repairable systems

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1089-1110

  Last, Günter ^a   Szekli, Ryszard ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

Author keywords

General repair; Geometric ergodicity; Imperfect repair; Monotonicity; Point processes; Stationarity; Stochastic intensity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032298110     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0001867800008818     Document Type: Article

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