Citation

Platz O. Reliab. Eng. 1984; 9(1): 25-31.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1984, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0143-8174(84)90004-0

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

A continuous time four-state Markov chain is shown to cover several of the models that have been used for describing dependencies between failures of components in redundant systems. Among these are the models derived by Marshall and Olkin and by Freund and models for one-out-of-three and two-out-of-three systems with identical components.