Signatures of indirect majority systems

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 597-603

  Boland, Philip J ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Order statistics; Signature of a coherent system; Simple and indirect majority systems; System reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035638851     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/996986765     Document Type: Article

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