Comparing two reliability upper bounds for multistate systems
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The path-cut reliability bound due to Esary and Proschan [J. Am. Stat. Assoc. 65 (1970) 329] and the minimax reliability bound due to Barlow and Proschan [Statistical Theory of Reliability and Life Testing: Probability Models, 1981] for binary systems have been generalized to multistate systems by Block and Savits [J. Appl. Probab. 19 (1982) 391]. Some comparison results concerning the two multistate lower bounds for various types of multistate systems are given by Meng [Probab. Eng. Inform. Sci. 16 (2002) 485]. In this note we compare the two multistate upper bounds and present results which generalize some previous ones obtained by Maymin [J. Stat. Plan. Inference 16 (1987) 337] for binary systems. Examples are given to illustrate our results
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- DOI
- 10.1016/j.ress.2004.03.027;
- PII
- S0951832004000845;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Reliability Engineering and System Safety
- Journal Volume
- 87
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 31-36
- ISSN
- 0951-8320
- CODEN
- RESSEP
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- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 36074286
- Subject category
- S99: GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS;
- Descriptors DEI
- COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL MODELS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; VECTORS
- Descriptors DEC
- EVALUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TENSORS
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- Copyright (c) 2004 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.