Lifetime Assessment by Intermittent Inspection under the Mixture Weibull Power Law Model with Application to XLPE Cables

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 179-189

  Hirose, Hideo ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

AIC; Degradation; Intermittent inspection; Lifetime; Maximum likelihood estimation; Mixture; Weibull power law

Indexed keywords

POLYETHYLENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; LIFE TABLE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LIFE TABLES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; POLYETHYLENES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030628795     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009661202692     Document Type: Article

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