Reliabilities for feedback systems and their saddlepoint approximation.

DOI10.1214/ss/1009212818zbMath1127.60314MaRDI QIDQ1431186

Ronald W. Butler

Publication date: 27 May 2004

Published in: Statistical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/ss/1009212818

zbMATH Keywords

reliability; saddlepoint approximation; feedback; flowgraphs; Failure rate; semi-Markov systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60F10: Large deviations

62E17: Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic)

60K20: Applications of Markov renewal processes (reliability, queueing networks, etc.)

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