A Bayesian approach to a reliability problem: Theory, analysis and interesting numerics

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 143-158

  Guttman, Irwin ^a   Papandonatos, George D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Numerical integration; Reliability; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031285452     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3315728     Document Type: Article

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