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The purpose of this chapter is to present the reliability analysis of semi-Markov systems. The underconsideration semi-Markov processes are both of continuous and discrete time with countable or finite state space and of general state space. The basic definitions of Markov renewal and semi-Markov processes are presented, as well as the Markov renewal theorem and the basic statistical estimation theory. We describe a general reliability model and give corresponding estimators and their properties.
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Gámiz, M.L., Kulasekera, K.B., Limnios, N., Lindqvist, B.H. (2011). Reliability of Semi-Markov Systems. In: Applied Nonparametric Statistics in Reliability. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-118-9_6
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