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A bivariate random environmental stress model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Pushpa L. Gupta  and
R. D. Gupta
Pushpa L. Gupta*
Affiliation:
University of Maine
R. D. Gupta*
Affiliation:
University of New Brunswick
*
∗Postal address: Department of Mathematics, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-0122, USA.
∗∗Postal address: Division of Mathematics, Engineering and Computer Science, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, NB, Canada E2L 4LS.
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Abstract

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We study the relative errors in reliability measures for the series system, under the wrong assumption of independence incorporating environmental effects, when the Marshall and Olkin model with environmental effects should be used.

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Type
Letters to the Editor
Information
Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , June 1990 , pp. 501 - 503
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1990 

Footnotes

Partially supported by NSERC Research Grant #A-4850.

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