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A very important tool in reliability based systems design and optimization are, see [1],[6],[9], probability functions of the type
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Marti, K. (1994). Approximations and Derivatives of Probability Functions. In: Anastassiou, G., Rachev, S.T. (eds) Approximation, Probability, and Related Fields. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2494-6_28
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