Comments on "Reliability and component importance of a consecutive-k-out-of-n system" by Zuo

Abstract

Zuo claimed that the comparison of Birnbaum importance between two components for a consecutive-k-out-of-n:G system is the same as that for the F-system. We show that this is not the case and give a correct relation between the two systems. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.