Reliability Bounds for Multistate Systems with Multistate Components

Joseph C. Hudson and Kailash C. Kapur
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Joseph C. Hudson: General Motors Institute, Flint Michigan
Kailash C. Kapur: Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

Operations Research, 1985, vol. 33, issue 1, 153-160

Abstract: The reliability literature has recently introduced several multistate models. This paper discusses reliability bounds in the most general of these models. It presents inclusion-exclusion bounds and compares them with disjoint subset bounds. The later bounds are based on a generalization of Abraham's recursive disjoint products.

Keywords: 721; reliability; bounds; for; multistate; systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1985
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