System-reliability confidence-intervals for complex-systems with estimated component-reliability

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 487-493

  Colt, David W ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence interval; Reliability estimation; System reliability

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RELIABILITY; SERVICE LIFE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ESTIMATED COMPONENT RELIABILITY; SYSTEM RELIABILITY CONFIDENCE INTERVALS;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031388007     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.693781     Document Type: Article

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