A cautionary tale about weibull analysis

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 244-248

  Mackisack, M S ^a   Stillmao, R H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Censored data; Maximum likelihood estimation; Survival analysis; Truncated data; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

CENSORED DATA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRUNCATED DATA;

AGING OF MATERIALS; COMPONENTS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SERVICE LIFE;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0030166217     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.510809     Document Type: Article

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