The reliability of k out of n systems

DOI10.1214/aop/1176993520zbMath0519.62086OpenAlexW2048498390MaRDI QIDQ1054432

Philip J. Boland, Frank Proschan

Publication date: 1983

Published in: The Annals of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aop/1176993520

zbMATH Keywords

Schur convexityindependent Bernoulli trialsreliability of k out of n systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15) Combinatorial probability (60C05) Convexity of real functions of several variables, generalizations (26B25) Reliability and life testing (62N05)

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