Comparison of proportional hazards models and neural networks for reliability estimation

Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 227-234

  Luxhoj, James T ^a   Shyur, Huan Jyh ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated life testing; Neural networks; Proportional hazards models

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TESTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SERVICE LIFE;

ACCELERATED LIFE TESTING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS;

COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING;

EID: 0031168332     PISSN: 09565515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018525308809     Document Type: Review

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