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Original Articles

Reliabilities for (n, f, k (i, j)) and ⟨n, f, k (i, j)⟩ Systems

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Pages 1779-1789 | Received 24 Sep 2005, Accepted 18 Jan 2006, Published online: 22 Nov 2006

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