On stochastic orders for the lifetime of a k-out-of-n system

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 137-142

  Korwar, Ramesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

ARBITRARY DISTRIBUTION; K OUT-OF-N SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC ORDER; TOTALLY POSITIVE;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037246029     PISSN: 02699648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0269964803171082     Document Type: Article

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