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— System Reliability (Series / Parallel / k-of-n)

Reliability of a system built from components in series, in active parallel (redundancy), or as a k-out-of-n configuration of identical units.

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Sources:
[1] C. E. Ebeling, An Introduction to Reliability and Maintainability Engineering, 3rd ed. Long Grove, IL, USA: Waveland Press, 2019.
[2] M. Rausand and A. Hoyland, System Reliability Theory: Models, Statistical Methods, and Applications, 2nd ed. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Wiley, 2004.
[3] Electronic Reliability Design Handbook, MIL-HDBK-338B, U.S. Dept. of Defense, 1998.

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