Error Log Analysis: Statistical Modeling and Heuristic Trend Analysis

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1990, Pages 419-432

  Lin, Ting Ting Y ^a,b   Siewiorek, Daniel P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Error log; Failure prediction; Hard failures; Intermittent and transient faults; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES - FAILURE; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - FAILURE; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ERROR LOG ANALYSIS; FAILURE PREDICTION; HARD FAILURES; HEURISTIC TREND ANALYSIS; INTERMITTENT AND TRANSIENT FAULTS; STATISTICAL MODELING;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0025502686     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: 15581721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.58720     Document Type: Article

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