Dieser Band führt anhand vieler Beispiele aus Naturwissenschaft und Technik in spezielle Kapitel der Zuverlässigkeitsanalyse ein. Theoretische Ausführungen werden anschaulich mit praktischen Anwendungen, meist aus der Industrie, verknüpft, um den Leser zur tiefgründigen Einarbeitung in die Konzepte zu motivieren. Erläutert werden auch relevante Näherungen und Randwertsätze.

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N. BALAKRISHNAN, PhD, is Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is also the author of A First Course in Order Statistics and four volumes of the Distributions in Statistics series (all from Wiley).

MARKOS V. KOUTRAS, PhD, is Professor of Statistics at the University of Piraeus in Greece, where he researches applied probability, reliability, and distribution theory.

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