Properties of coherent systems with dependent components

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 175-191

  Navarro, J ^a   Ruiz, Jose M ^a   Sandoval, Carlos J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coherent systems; Generalized mixtures; Order statistics; Reliability bounds

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REDUNDANCY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COHERENT SYSTEMS; HYPERMAXIMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARALLEL SYSTEMS; SERIES SYSTEMS; UNIVARIATE DISTRIBUTION;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 33847336944     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920600966316     Document Type: Article

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