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Reliability importance for continuum structure functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Chul Kim  and
Laurence A. Baxter
Chul Kim*
Affiliation:
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Laurence A. Baxter*
Affiliation:
State University of New York at Stony Brook
*
∗Present address: Agency for Defense Development, P.O. Box 35, Daejeon, Korea.
∗∗Postal address: Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA.
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Abstract

A continuum structure function is a non-decreasing mapping from the unit hypercube to the unit interval. A definition of the reliability importance, ℛi(α) say, of component i at system level α(0 < α ≦ 1) is proposed. Some properties of this function are deduced, in particular conditions under which and conditions under which ℛi(α) is positive (0 < α < 1).

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Short Communications
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Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , September 1987 , pp. 779 - 785
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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1987 

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Footnotes

Research supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, AFSC, USAF, under grant AFOSR-84–0243. The US Government is authorised to reproduce and distribute reprints for Governmental purposes notwithstanding any copyright notation thereon.

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