General conditions for comparing the reliability functions of systems of components sharing a common environment

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 124-135

  Garren, Steven T ^a   Richards, Donald St P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Exponential distribution; Gamma distribution; m of n system; Marshall Olkin distribution; Multivariate Weibull distribution; Order statistics; System reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032387110     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002190020001473X     Document Type: Article

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