An approach for computing tight numerical bounds on renewal functions

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 182-188

  Ayhan, Hayriye ^a,e   Limon Robles, J ^b   Wortman, Martin A ^c,d  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

^c IEEE

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Renewal equation; Renewal function; Riemann stieltjes integral

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONS; INTEGRATION;

RENEWAL EQUATIONS; RENEWAL FUNCTIONS; RIEMANN-STIELTJES INTEGRATION;

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 0032644867     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.784278     Document Type: Article

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