Start-up demonstration tests under Markov dependence model with corrective actions

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 155-169

  Balakrishnan, N ^a   Mohanty, S G ^a   Aki, S ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Discrete distributions; Markov chain; Probability generating function; Run; Start up demonstration test; Waiting time

Indexed keywords

EID: 9844232035     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1003122908057     Document Type: Article

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