Abstract:The purpose of this paper is to derive an approximation of the reliability of a system with doubly bounded performance functions. The problem is illustrated through the probability of an n dimensional hyper cube of the multivariate normal distribution. An approximation method is presented to evaluate this probability based on n + 2 computations of the CDF of the multi-normal distribution.
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