Abstract
Reliability of a consecutive r-of-s-of-n: F system with identical elements is expressed through the n-th degree of a certain substochastic matrix depending only on r, s and the elements failure probability. As a consequence, a simple approximate formula for the reliability is derived.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 597-609 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Stochastic Models |
Volume | 18 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Dec 2002 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Statistics and Probability
- Modeling and Simulation
- Applied Mathematics