Title :
A Note on Availability for a Finite Interval
Author :
Nakagawa, Toshio ; Goel, Amrit L.
Author_Institution :
Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y. 13210; Department of Mathematics, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan.
Abstract :
A definition of availability having a probabilistic guarantee for a finite interval is made. Examples and asymptotic solution are presented.
Keywords :
Availability; Convolution; Gaussian distribution; Industrial engineering; Probability; Random variables; Reliability engineering; Reliability theory; Statistics; Terminology;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TR.1973.5215677
