A stochastic covariate failure model for assessing system reliability

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 761-767

  Ebrahimi, Nader ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Damage process; Diffusion process; Hitting time; Increasing failure rate; It differential equation; New better than used; Reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035438325     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1005091039     Document Type: Article

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