Mixture Models for Reliability of Software with Imperfect Debugging: Identifiability of Parameters

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 104-113

  Fakhre Zakeri, Issa ^a   Slud, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Exponential order statistic model; Failure intensity; Laplace transform; Logarithmic Poisson process; Stieltjes transform

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; FUNCTIONS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELIABILITY;

FAILURE COUNT FUNCTION; FAILURE INTENSITY; IMPERFECT DEBUGGING; LOGARITHMIC POISSON PROCESS; RANDOM FAILURE CAUSATION RATES; SOFTWARE FAILURE TIMES; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; STIELTJES TRANSFORM;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0029272601     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: 15581721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.376529     Document Type: Article

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