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In Quest of the Distributional Properties of Reliability Rate
Pillai N., Vijayamohanan
Centre for Development Studies, Prasanth Nagar, Ulloor, Trivandrum, Kerala, India
4 February 2008
Online at https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7000/
MPRA Paper No. 7000, posted 04 Feb 2008 15:06 UTC
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