Computing Consecutive-Type Reliabilities Non-Recursively

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 367-372

  Shmueli, Galit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Consecutive system; Nonrecursive reliability; Partial fraction expansion; Recurrence relation; System reliability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONS; MARKOV PROCESSES; POLYNOMIALS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY;

CONSECUTIVE SYSTEMS; GENERATING FUNCTIONS; PARTIAL FRACTION EXPANSION; WAITING TIME (WT);

SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

EID: 0347603318     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2003.817846     Document Type: Article

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