A Bayes Method for Assessing Product-Reliability During Development Testing

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 503-510

  Mazzuchi, Thomas A ^a   Soyer, Refik ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes inference; development testing; Dirichlet distribution; ordered reliabilities; Reliability growth

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFERENCE ENGINES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BAYES METHOD; DEVELOPMENT TESTING; DIRICHLET DISTRIBUTION; ORDERED RELIABILITIES; PRODUCT TESTING; RELIABILITY GROWTH;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0027664378     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: 15581721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.257839     Document Type: Article

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