| Article ID: | iaor20084325 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 177 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 354 |
| End Page Number: | 364 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2007 |
| Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
| Authors: | Bueno Vanderlei da Costa, Menezes Jos Elmo de |
Using martingale methods in reliability theory we developed the Barlow and Proschan reliability importance of a pattern to the system reliability under dependence conditions. We allowed several levels of information to calculate the importance measure.