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Negative Mixtures Order Statistics and Systems

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This paper shows the relationship between mixtures, order statistics and coherent systems with possibly dependent components. These relationships are used to obtain reliability properties of order statistics and systems. The results are illustrated through a series of examples.

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  1. Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of Murcia, Spain

    Jorge Navarro

  2. Department of Quantitative and Informatics Methods, Polytechnical University of Cartagena, Spain

    Pedro J. Hernández

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Navarro, J., Hernández, P.J. (2008). Negative Mixtures Order Statistics and Systems. In: Advances in Mathematical and Statistical Modeling. Statistics for Industry and Technology. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4626-4_7

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