Multivariate Life Testing in Variably Scaled Environments

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 337-351

  Kvam, P H ^a   Samaniego, F J ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated life test; EM algorithm; Factorial model; Identifiability; Likelihood ratio test; Maximum likelihood estimation; Multivariate exponential distribution

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; LIFE TABLE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031309814     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009602128877     Document Type: Article

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