The identifiability problem for repairable systems subject to competing risks

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 774-790

  Bedford, Tim ^a   Lindqvist, Bo H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Competing risks; Ergodicity; Identifiability; Joint survival distribution; Marked point process; Markov chain; Reliability

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RISKS; THEOREM PROVING;

COMPETING RISKS; ERGODICITY; IDENTIFIABILITY; JOINT SURVIVAL DISTRIBUTION; MARKED POINT PROCESS;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 7444231740     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/1093962233     Document Type: Article

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