Availability of a system maintained through several imperfect repairs before a replacement or a perfect repair

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 105-114

  Biswas, Atanu ^a   Sarkar, Jyotirmoy ^b  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous monitoring; Laplace transform; Minimal repair; Primary 90B25; Reliability; Renewal; Residue calculus; Secondary 62N05; Singularity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043261614     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(00)00087-0     Document Type: Article

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