Measures of Component Importance in Nonrepairable and Repairable Multistate Strongly Coherent Systems

Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 523-547

  Natvig, Bent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960321478     PISSN: 13875841     EISSN: 15737713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11009-010-9170-2     Document Type: Article

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