Repair-limit risk-free warranty policies with imperfect repair

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 765-772

  Baiy, Jun ^a   Pham, Hoang ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Imperfect repair; Quasi renewal processes; Renewal processes; Repair limit; Warranty cost

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; MARKETING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

IMPERFECT REPAIR; QUASI-RENEWAL PROCESSES; RENEWAL PROCESSES; REPAIR LIMIT; WARRANTY COST;

REPAIR;

EID: 27744541472     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2005.851343     Document Type: Article

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