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An exponential riddle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Bhaskar Sengupta
Bhaskar Sengupta*
Affiliation:
Bell Laboratories
*
∗ Postal address: Bell Laboratories, HP-1C319, Holmdel, NJ 07733, U.S.A.
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Abstract

We present a problem of finding the optimum inspection procedure for a system whose time to failure is an exponential random variable. We characterize a simple and surprising solution to the problem.

Keywords

INSPECTIONMARKOVIAN DECISION PROCESSESRELIABILITY

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Short Communications
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Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , September 1982, pp. 737 - 740
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1982 

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Footnotes

This work was done while the author was at Columbia University, New York.

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