New comparisons in birnbaum importance for the consecutive-k-out-of-n system

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 187-192

  Chang, Gerard J ^a   Cui, Lirong ^b   Hwang, Frank K ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHINA AEROSPACE SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY CORPORATION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

BIRNBAUM IMPORTANCE; CONSECUTIVE-K-OUT-OF-N; CONSECUTIVE-K-OUT-OF-N SYSTEM;

ENGINEERING;

EID: 0033464345     PISSN: 02699648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0269964899132042     Document Type: Article

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