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On Some Structural Importance of System Components

In this note a new method of comparing component structural importance is introduced and compared to other existing ones. Especially, relationships of the new comparison method to the H-importance due to Hwang (2001,2005), the criticality ordering due to Boland et al. (1989) and Birnbaum importance are obtained. Illustrative examples are given.

Fan C. Meng

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