Reliability of a k out of n system of components sharing a common environment

Applied Mathematics Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 837-844

  Gupta, R C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Crossings of the failure rates; Failure rate; Gamma distribution; Inverse Gaussian distribution; Reliability function

Indexed keywords

EID: 31244437082     PISSN: 08939659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-9659(02)00051-4     Document Type: Article

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