The failure rate dynamics in heterogeneous populations

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 112, Issue , 2013, Pages 120-128

  Cha, Ji Hwan ^a   Finkelstein, Maxim ^b,c  

^a Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coefficient of variation; Heterogeneous population; Quality measures; Stochastically ordered subpopulations; Variance

Indexed keywords

QUALITY ASSURANCE; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; HETEROGENEOUS POPULATIONS; QUALITY MEASURES; STOCHASTICALLY ORDERED SUBPOPULATIONS; VARIANCE;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84872296612     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2012.11.012     Document Type: Article

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