UNIFORM STOCIIASTIC ORDERING ON A SYSTEM OF COMPONENTS WITH DEPENDENT LIFETIMES INDUCED BY A COMMON ENVIRONMENT

SUMMARY. A system of n non-renewable components sharing a common random environment is considered. In terms of the uniform stochastic orderings, it is shown how the random environment can aect the number of components functioning and the lifetime of a k-out-of-n system.

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