Relations and generalizations of importance measures in reliability

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 659-674

  Kuo, Way ^a   Zhu, Xiaoyan ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b University of Tennessee   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuum systems; importance measures; multi state systems; noncoherent systems; repairable systems

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM SYSTEMS; IMPORTANCE MEASURE; MULTI-STATE SYSTEM; NONCOHERENT SYSTEM; REPAIRABLE SYSTEMS;

SAFETY ENGINEERING;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 84865712762     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2012.2208302     Document Type: Article

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