Evaluating a warm standby system with components having proportional hazard rates

Operations Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 56-60

  Li, Xiaohu ^a   Yan, Rongfang ^a   Zuo, Ming J ^b  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Binomial distribution; Failure rate; Heterogeneity; Majorization order; Order statistics; Reliability; Stochastic order; Warm standby

Indexed keywords

RELIABILITY;

BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; FAILURE RATE; HETEROGENEITY; MAJORIZATION ORDER; ORDER STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC ORDER; WARM STANDBY;

MILITARY OPERATIONS;

EID: 58049102812     PISSN: 01676377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orl.2008.09.004     Document Type: Article

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