Trend Change in Mean Residual Life

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 291-296

  Lim, Jae Hak ^a   Park, Dong Ho ^b  

^a Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

^b Hallym University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

DIMRL; Empirical power; IDMRL; L statistic; Lognormal distribution

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EMPIRICAL POWER; FAILURE RATE; INVERSE GUASSIAN DISTRIBUTION; LOGNORMAL DISTRIBUTION; MEAN RESIDUAL LIFE; MONOTONICITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0029324826     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: 15581721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.387381     Document Type: Article

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