Bounds on variances of lifetimes of coherent and mixed systems

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 894-908

  Jasiński, Krzysztof ^a   Navarro, Jorge ^b   Rychlik, Tomasz ^a,c  

^a NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Coherent system; Mixed system; Upper bound; Variance; samaniego signature

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350043351     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1253279857     Document Type: Article

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