Semi-Markov Modelling for Multi-State Systems

Markov processes are widely used in reliability engineering. In this work we focus on multi state systems (MSS) and apply the Semi-Markov methodology for parameter estimation. For this purpose the sojourn times are assumed to be independent not identically distributed (inid) random variables that follow a general class of distributions that includes several popular reliability distributions like the exponential, Weibull, and Pareto.

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