Comparative analysis of availability for a redundant repairable system

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 332-338

  Ke, Jau Chuan ^a   Chu, Yunn Kuang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAICHUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Availability; Bootstrap approach; Consistent; Simulation; Slutsky's theorem

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPERATING COSTS;

BOOTSTRAP APPROACH; INTERVAL ESTIMATIONS; SLUTSKY'S THEOREM; STEADY-STATE AVAILABILITY;

REDUNDANCY;

EID: 34247631639     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2006.09.123     Document Type: Article

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