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Reliability properties of systems with exchangeable components and exponential conditional distributions

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We study basic properties for bivariate systems with exchangeable components and exponential conditional distributions which represent bi-component biological or engineering systems with structural dependency. This is equivalent to suppose that we have similar components with the bivariate exponential conditional joint distribution defined by Arnold and Strauss (1988). Specifically, we study the reliability functions, the moments, some aging measures, ordering and classification properties for series and parallel systems.

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  1. Departamento de Estadística e I.O., Universidad de Murcia, Spain

    Jorge Navarro & José M. Ruiz

  2. Departamento de Informática de Sistemas, Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia, Spain

    Carlos J. Sandoval

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Supported by Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología under grant BFM2003-02947

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Navarro, J., Ruiz, J.M. & Sandoval, C.J. Reliability properties of systems with exchangeable components and exponential conditional distributions. Test 15, 471–484 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02607062

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