Article ID: | iaor20051918 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 155 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 474 |
End Page Number: | 486 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2004 |
Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
Authors: | Martin Donald E.K. |
By conditioning on the time of the first failure, several results are derived for demonstration tests of the start-up reliability of equipment. The start-ups are assumed to follow a Markov chain. The equipment is accepted if