Relative Ageing for Two Parallel Systems and Related Problems

Mathematical and Computer Modelling

Volumn 38, Issue 11-13, 2003, Pages 1339-1345

  Lai, C D ^a   Xie, M ^b  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Increasing hazard; Life distribution; Parallel systems; Partial ordering; Relative ageing; Variance comparison

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344735879     PISSN: 08957177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-7177(03)90136-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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