On reliability bounds via conditional inequalities

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 104-114

  Xie, M ^a   Lai, C D ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Association; Conditional approximation; Reliability bounds; Reliability theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 85037214907     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1032192555     Document Type: Article

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