Monomial ideals and the scarf complex for coherent systems in reliability theory

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1289-1311

  Giglio, Beatrice ^a,b   Wynn, Henry P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b Financial Services Authority   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coherent systems; Inclusion exclusion; Monomial ideals; Multistate systems; Network reliability; Scarf complex

Indexed keywords

EID: 24344437315     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053604000000373     Document Type: Article

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