Exponential Order Statistic Models of Software Reliability Growth

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn SE-12, Issue 1, 1986, Pages 12-24

  Miller, Douglas R ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complete monotonicity; exponencial distrtbution; non homogeneous Poisson processes; order statistics; probability models; software reliability

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS;

EXPONENTIAL RANDOM VARIABLES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0022576316     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.1986.6312915     Document Type: Article

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