On steady state availability of a system with lognormal repair time

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 409-416

  Ananda, Malwane M A ^a   Gamage, Jinadasa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Lognormal repair times; Steady state availability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PERFORMANCE; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL TESTS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; LOGNORMAL REPAIR TIMES; STEADY STATE AVAILABILITY;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0442311847     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0096-3003(03)00281-9     Document Type: Article

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