Mixture representations of residual lifetimes of used systems

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1097-1112

  Navarro, Jorge ^a   Balakrishnan, N ^b   Samaniego, Francisco J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherent system; k out of n system; Order statistics; Signature; Stochastic ordering

Indexed keywords

EID: 58449097545     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1231340236     Document Type: Article

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