Bayes inference for s-shaped software-reliability growth models

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1997, Pages

  Kuo, Lynn ^a,c   Lee, Jae Chang ^a   Choi, Kiheon ^b   Yang, Tae Young ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

^c Myong Ji University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROGRAM DIAGNOSTICS; RELIABILITY THEORY;

BAYES INFERENCE; GIBBS SAMPLER; METROPOLIS ALGORITHM;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0031096775     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.589931     Document Type: Article

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