Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1154850 Statistics & Probability Letters 2006 8 Pages PDF
Abstract
The limiting availability, or steady state availability of a repairable system is studied. It is assumed that the lifetimes of system are independent but not necessarily identically distributed, and the times for repairing the failed systems are also independent but not necessarily identically distributed. It can be used to better model the real situation than the usual i.i.d. assumption. In this paper, sufficient conditions are given under which the limiting availability of the system exists and its closed-form expression is also derived.
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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Statistics and Probability
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