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Estimation of limiting availability for a stationary bivariate process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

B. Abraham*
Affiliation:
University of Waterloo
N. Balakrishna*
Affiliation:
University of Waterloo
*
Postal address: Institute for Improvement in Quality and Productivity, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1. Email address: babraham@uwaterloo.ca
∗∗Visiting from Coching University of Science and Technology, Cochin, 682022 India.

Abstract

We estimate the limiting availability of a system when the operating and repair times form a stationary bivariate sequence. These estimators are shown to be consistent and asymptotically normal under certain conditions. In particular, we estimate the limiting availability for a bivariate exponential autoregressive process.

Type
Research Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 2000 

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