Reliability governed by the relative locations of random variables following a homogeneous poisson process in a finite domain

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 226-237

  Todinov, M T ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

HOMOGENOUS POISSON PROCESS; MINIMUM FAILURE FREE OPERATING INTERVAL; RANDOM FAILURES;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 3142738067     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2004.829132     Document Type: Article

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