Failure profiles of coherent systems

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 477-490

  Belzunce, Félix ^a   Shaked, Moshe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Bounds; K out of n systems; Likelihood ratio stochastic order; Path and cut sets; Reliability importance

Indexed keywords

BOUNDS; K-OUT-OF-N SYSTEMS; LIKELIHOOD RATIO STOCHASTIC ORDER; PATH AND CUT SETS; RELIABILITY IMPORTANCE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RELIABILITY; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; THEOREM PROVING;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 2342627341     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nav.20010     Document Type: Article

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