New results on the Barlow-Proschan and Natvig measures of component importance in nonrepairable and repairable systems

Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 603-620

  Natvig, Bent ^a   Gåsemyr, Jørund ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Dynamic measures; Importance of a system component; Nonrepairable systems; Repairable systems; Stationary measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649431387     PISSN: 13875841     EISSN: 15737713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11009-008-9079-1     Document Type: Article

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