Failure Inference from a Marker Process Based on a Bivariate Wiener Model

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 229-251

  Whitmore, G A ^a   Crowder, M J ^b   Lawless, J F ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bivariate Wiener process; Degradation; Failure time; First passage time; Marker process; Prediction; Reliability; Statistical inference

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; HUMAN; LIFE TABLE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

BIOMETRY; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 0031615618     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009617814586     Document Type: Article

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