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Stochastic Orders in Reliability Theory

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Stochastic Models in Reliability and Maintenance

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Stochastic orders and related inequalities are very important in various areas of reliability and maintainability theory. The purpose of this chapter is to provide a brief survey of the useful known results concerning stochastic orders and their applications developed in these areas.

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Ohnishi, M. (2002). Stochastic Orders in Reliability Theory. In: Osaki, S. (eds) Stochastic Models in Reliability and Maintenance. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24808-8_2

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