Qualitative properties of profit-making k-out-of-n systems subject to two kinds of failures /

Several properties are derived for optimal k-out-of-n systems in which: (1) the i.i.d components can be with a prespecified frequency, in one of two possible modes; (2) components are subject to failures in each of the two modes; and (3) the costs of two kinds of system failures are not necessarily...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sah, Raaj Kumar
Corporate Author: Yale University. Economic Growth Center
Other Authors: Stiglitz, Joseph E. 1943- (Eugene)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University. Economic Growth Center, 1989
Series:Center paper ; no. 416
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