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RELIABILITYFORSOMEBIVARIATE EXPONENTIALDISTRIBUTIONS SARALEESNADARAJAHANDSAMUELKOTZ Received28January2005;Revised17March2005;Accepted20June2005 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 areindependentrandomvariablesbelongingtothesameunivariatefamily.Inthispaper, forms ofRareconsidered when (X,Y)follow bivariate distributions with dependence between X and Y. In particular, explicit expressions for R are