Comments on "A hierarchy of importance indices"

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 529-531

  Zhu, Xiaoyan ^a   Kuo, Way ^b  

^a University of Tennessee   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Birnbaum importance; Cutset; H importance; Pathset; Structural importance

Indexed keywords

EID: 51449105219     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2008.928190     Document Type: Note

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