Using Statistics of t lie Extremes for Software Reliability Analysis

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 292-299

  Kaufmam, Lori M ^a   Buigan, Joanne Bechta ^a   Johnson, Barry W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mean time to failure; Software reliability engineering; Statistics of the extremes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008197359     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.799901     Document Type: Article

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