Closure property of the NBUC class under formation of parallel systems

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 452-454

  Pellerey, Franco ^a   Petakos, Kyriakos I ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b HELLENIC NAVAL ACADEMY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coherent systems; NBU; NBU(2); NBUC; Parallel systems; Series systems; Stochastic orders

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SERVICE LIFE; THEOREM PROVING;

COHERENT SYSTEMS; NEW BETTER THAN USED; NEW BETTER THAN USED IN CONVEX ORDER; PARALLEL SYSTEMS; SERIES SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC ORDERS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0036890993     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2002.804471     Document Type: Article

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