New bounds on the reliability of the consecutive k-out-of-r-from-n:F system

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 97-104

  Habib, A ^a   Szantai T ^a  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

BOOLE-BONFERRONI BOUNDS; HUNTER-WORSLEY BOUNDS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0342906643     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(99)00021-6     Document Type: Article

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