Estimation Subject to Block Censoring

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 489-495

  Baxter, Laurence A ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exponential distribution; Module; Series system

Indexed keywords

COMPONENTS; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SERVICE LIFE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BLOCK CENSORING; CIRCUIT PACK; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATE; SERIES SYSTEMS;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029378992     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: 15581721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.406589     Document Type: Article

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