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title: 'dist.structure: Structured Random Variables for Reliability System Distributions'
version: 0.5.0
abstract: 'Extends the ''algebraic.dist'' distribution algebra to random variables
  with internal structure: coherent reliability systems decomposed into components
  arranged by a structure function (series, parallel, k-out-of-n, bridge, and arbitrary
  topologies via minimal path sets). Every ''dist_structure'' object is a ''dist'',
  so the full distribution algebra (mean, vcov, sampler, surv, cdf) works automatically
  via default methods that compose component-level distributions through the topology.
  Adds structural queries: structure function evaluation, minimal path and cut sets,
  system signature, critical states, dual, Birnbaum structural importance, and system
  reliability. Topology shortcut constructors (series_dist, parallel_dist, kofn_dist,
  bridge_dist) produce ready-to-use dists from component dists and a chosen structure.'
authors:
- family-names: Towell
  given-names: Alexander
  email: lex@metafunctor.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6443-9897
repository: https://cran.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/queelius/dist.structure
commit: 384296a34df645d527d08945e190d1c1b71a4545
url: https://github.com/queelius/dist.structure
date-released: '2026-05-12'
contact:
- family-names: Towell
  given-names: Alexander
  email: lex@metafunctor.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6443-9897