Ordering properties of systems with two dependent components

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 645-655

  Navarro, Jorge ^a   Lai, Chin Diew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Dependence; Failure rate; Orderings; Reliability; Systems

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RELIABILITY THEORY;

DEPENDENCE; FAILURE RATE; ORDERINGS; SYSTEMS RELIABILITY;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 33947692671     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920601001840     Document Type: Article

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