Approximating Expected Warranty Costs
综述了保修成本分析的部分文献，通过一个框架将预期成本表达为更新理论中的复杂函数，并讨论了多种近似方法，其中直线近似效果良好。
In this paper, we survey a portion of the literature in the analysis of warranty costs. In order to compare the price of different warranty policies, we review a framework which leads to expressing the expected costs in terms of complex functions arising in renewal theory. These functions and several approximations are discussed. In particular, a straight line approximation performs well.