Prediction of gamma failure times

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 400-405

  Ogunyemi, Olabode Theophilus ^a  

^a OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional mean; Conditional median; Gamma distribution; Maximum likelihood estimation; Order statistic; Parametric bootstrap; Prediction; Type ii censoring

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

GAMMA FAILURE TIMES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION (MLE); PARAMETRIC BOOTSTRAP;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031224217     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.664013     Document Type: Article

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