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Coolen, F.P., Utkin, L.V. (2011). Imprecise Reliability. In: Lovric, M. (eds) International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04898-2_297
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