The asymptotic distribution of the strength of a series-parallel system with equal load-sharing

DOI10.1214/aop/1176993919zbMath0485.60016OpenAlexW1988931956MaRDI QIDQ1164310

Richard L. Smith

Publication date: 1982

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aop/1176993919

zbMATH Keywords

weak convergenceextreme valuesnormal approximationseries-parallel systemsparallel fibre bundles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Order statistics; empirical distribution functions (62G30) Large deviations (60F10) Brittle damage (74R05) Reliability and life testing (62N05)

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