On closure of the IFR(2) and NBU(2) classes

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 235-241

  Franco, Manuel ^a   Ruiz, José M ^a   Ruiz, M Carmen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coherent systems; IFR(2); NBU(2); Parallel systems; Series systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035533803     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/996986657     Document Type: Article

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