Birnbaum's measure of component importance for noncoherent systems
Birnbaum's measure of component importance for noncoherent systems
Importance analysis of noncoherent systems is limited, and is generally inaccurate because all measures of importance that have been developed are strictly for coherent analysis. This paper considers the probabilistic measure of component importance developed by Birnbaum (1969). An extension of this measure is proposed which enables noncoherent importance analysis. …