Lifetime distributions of consecutive-k-out-of-n:F systems

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 555-562

  Aki, Sigeo ^a   Hirano, Katuomi ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dependent components; Discrete distributions of order k; Lifetime distribution; Order statistics; System reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043048103     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0362-546X(97)00336-2     Document Type: Article

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