Minimal repair in heterogeneous populations

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 281-286

  Finkelstein, M S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Information based minimal repair; Minimal repair; Nonhomogeneous Poisson process; Statistical minimal repair; Stochastic intensity

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442605746     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1077134686     Document Type: Article

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