On preservation of some shifted and proportional orders by systems

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 141-154

  Belzunce, Félix ^a   Ruiz, José M ^a   Ruiz, M Carmen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aging classes; Coherent systems; k out of n systems; Proportional orders; Shifted orders; Stochastic orders

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037111644     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(02)00302-4     Document Type: Article

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