Lifetime distribution and estimation problems of consecutive-k-out-of-n:F systems

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 185-199

  Aki, Sigeo ^a   Hirano, Katuomi ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Consecutive k out of n:F system; Discrete distributions of order k; Exponential distribution; Failure time; Moment estimator; Order statistics; Pareto distribution; System reliability; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

RELIABILITY; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

ASYMPTOTIC EFFICIENCY; DISCRETE DISTRIBUTION; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION; K OUT OF N SYSTEM; MOMENT METHOD; ORDER STATISTIC; PARETO DISTRIBUTION;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 0030374112     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00049298     Document Type: Article

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