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RELIABILITYFORSOMEBIVARIATE GAMMADISTRIBUTIONS SARALEESNADARAJAH Received23July2004andinrevisedform23November2004 Intheareaofstress-strength models, therehasbeenalargeamount ofworkasregards estimation ofthe reliability R=Pr(XY).The algebraic form for R=Pr(XY )has been worked outforthevastmajority ofthewell-known distributions when X andY areindependent random variables belonging tothesame univariate family.Inthispa- per,weconsiderformsofRwhen(X,Y)followsabivariatedistributionwithdependence betweenX andY.Inparticular,wederiveexplicitexpressionsforRwhenthejointdis- tributionisbivariate