Applications of renewal theory in analysis of the free-replacement warranty. (English) Zbl 0462.90034

Blischke, Wallace R.; Scheuer, Ernest M.

Nav. Res. Logist. Q. 28, 193-205 (1981).

MSC:

90B25	Reliability, availability, maintenance, inspection in operations research
60K20	Applications of Markov renewal processes (reliability, queueing networks, etc.)

Keywords:

applications of renewal theory; free-replacement warranty

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