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Some Properties of the Poisson Distribution with an Application to Reliability Testing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2009

Jayant Rajgopal ,
Mainak Mazumdar  and
Thomas H. Savits
Jayant Rajgopal
Affiliation:
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261
Mainak Mazumdar
Affiliation:
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261
Thomas H. Savits
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261
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Abstract

Construction of a certain class of component tests for verification of series system reliability requires the use of some properties of the Poisson distribution that are not commonly known or used. This paper states and proves these results.

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Research Article
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , July 1994 , pp. 345 - 354
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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