The Notion of “Composite Reliability” and its Hierarchical Bayes Estimation

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 91, Issue 436, 1996, Pages 1474-1484

  Chen, Jingxian ^a   Singpurwalla, Nozer D ^b  

^a The Institute for Reliability and Risk Analysis   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binomial inference; Empirical Bayes; Exchangeability; Gibbs sampling; Markov chain Mont Carlo; Nuclear power; Public policy; Regulation; Risk analysis; Safety analysis; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030335085     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1996.10476715     Document Type: Article

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