Modeling Discrete Bathtub and Upside-Down Bathtub Mean Residual-Life Functions

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1988, Pages 545-549

  Park, Dong Ho ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bathtub and upside down bathtub; Discrete; Discrete life (failure) data; Discrete mean residual life function; failure (hazard) rate function; mean residual life

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

DISCRETE BATHTUB FUNCTION; HAZARD RATE ESTIMATION; MEAN RESIDUAL LIFE; RESIDUAL LIFE FUNCTIONS MODELING; UPSIDE DOWN BATHTUB FUNCTION;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0024171875     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: 15581721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.9879     Document Type: Article

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