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Translated from Itogi Nauki i Tekhniki, Seriya Sovremennaya Matematika i Ee Prilozheniya. Tematicheskie Obzory. Vol. 2. Teoriya Veroyatnostei i Matematicheskaya Statistika. 1, 1993.

This study was partially supported by the Bulgarian fund “Scientific investigations,” Contract 1991.

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Chukova, S.S., Dimitrov, B.N. & Rykov, V.V. Warranty analysis (review). J Math Sci 67, 3486–3508 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01096273

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