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Point Processes for Reliability Analysis

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Stochastic processes whose realizations consist of point events in time or space arise in many fields of application and have been intensively studied in recent decades.

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Cha, J.H., Finkelstein, M. (2018). Introduction. In: Point Processes for Reliability Analysis. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73540-5_1

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