Stochastic comparison of repairable systems by coupling

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 348-370

  Last, Günter ^a   Szekli, Ryszard ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Compensators; Coupling; General repair; Imperfect repair; Minimal repair; Point processes; Stochastic ordering

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032378454     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021900200014996     Document Type: Article

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