Multi-state consecutive-k-out-of-n systems

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 527-534

  Huang, Jinsheng ^a   Zuo, Ming J ^a   Fang, Zhide ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY THEORY;

MULTI-STATE SYSTEMS;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 0038136657     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408170304418     Document Type: Article

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