On some importance measures of system components

Min Xie

Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 1987, vol. 25, 273-280

Abstract: Importance measures are helpful in finding which components should receive more attention than others in system development. In this paper a general importance measure using the system yield function is suggested. Some new results are obtained.

Keywords: component; importance; coherent; system; Barlow-Proschan; measure; Natvig; measure; expected; yield (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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