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 Title: Reliability for Beta Models Authors: Nadarajah, Saralees Keywords: Beta DistributionsHypergeometric FunctionsIncomplete Beta FunctionReliability Issue Date: 2002 Publisher: Institute of Mathematics and Informatics Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Citation: Serdica Mathematical Journal, Vol. 28, No 3, (2002), 267p-282p Abstract: In the area of stress-strength models there has been a large amount of work as regards estimation of the reliability R = Pr(X2 < X1 ) when X1 and X2 are independent random variables belonging to the same univariate family of distributions. The algebraic form for R = Pr(X2 < X1 ) has been worked out for the majority of the well-known distributions including Normal, uniform, exponential, gamma, weibull and pareto. However, there are still many other distributions for which the form of R is not known. We have identified at least some 30 distributions with no known form for R. In this paper we consider some of these distributions and derive the corresponding forms for the reliability R. The calculations involve the use of various special functions. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10525/504 ISSN: 1310-6600 Appears in Collections: Volume 28 Number 3

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