A new approach to censored lifetime variables

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 181-187

  Bedford, Tim ^a   Meilijson, Isaac ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); MACHINE COMPONENTS; MAINTENANCE; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELIABILITY;

CENSORED LIFETIME VARIABLES; FAILURE MODE;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 0030081533     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0951-8320(95)00115-8     Document Type: Article

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