文档介绍：Springer Series in Reliability Engineering
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Toshio Nakagawa
Stochastic Processes
with Applications to Reliability Theory
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Dr. Toshio Nakagawa
Department of Business Administration
Aichi Institute of Technology
1247 Yachigusa, Yakusa-cho
470-0392 Toyota
Japan
e-mail: toshi-******@
ISSN 1614-7839
ISBN 978-0-85729-273-5 e-ISBN 978-0-85729-274-2
DOI -0-85729-274-2
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Preface
I have learned first reliability theory from the book Mathematical Theory of
Reliability [1] written by Barlow in 1965 that is the most famous and excellent one
theoretically up to now. I was a marvelously lucky rea