Computing and applying the signature of a system with two common failure criteria

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 576-580

  Eryilmaz, Serkan ^a   Zuo, Ming J ^b  

^a IZMIR UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Consecutive system; exchangeable lifetimes; mean time to failure; signature; stochastic ordering; survival function

Indexed keywords

CONSECUTIVE SYSTEM; EXCHANGEABLE LIFETIMES; MEAN TIME TO FAILURE; SIGNATURE; STOCHASTIC ORDERINGS; SURVIVAL FUNCTION;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

EID: 77956342505     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2010.2054170     Document Type: Article

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