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The use of alternating renewal processes to model the behaviour of a repairable system is discussed, and properties of two measures of availability are reviewed. It is shown how the introduction of forward recurrence times to failure enables these measures to be generalised.
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Laurence A. Baxter (1981) studied this question.
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