Birnbaum's measure of component importance for noncoherent systems

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 213-219

  Andrews, John D ^a   Beeson, Sally ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fault tree; Importance measures; Noncoherent; Structure function

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; GATES (TRANSISTOR); PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

BIRNBAUM MEASURE; IMPORTANCE MEASURES; NONCOHERENT SYSTEMS; STRUCTURE FUNCTION;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0041672463     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2003.809656     Document Type: Article

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