Abstract
In dynamic reliability, the evolution of a system is described by
a piecewise deterministic Markov process
Open Access
Characterization of the marginal distributions of Markov processes used in dynamic reliability
Received03 May 2004
Revised15 Feb 2005
Accepted22 Feb 2005
Published05 Mar 2006
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