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This chapter consists in a short review of survival probabilities based on failure rate and reliability functions, in connection with Poisson processes having a time-dependent intensity.
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Privault, N. (2013). Reliability Theory. In: Understanding Markov Chains. Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4451-51-2_13
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