The Modified Sudden Death Test: Planning Life Tests with a Limited Number of Test Positions

Journal of Testing and Evaluation

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 434-443

  Pascual, Francis G ^a   Meeker, William Q ^b  

^a ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

Author keywords

Cornish Fisher expansions; Limited test positions; Maximum likelihood methods; Modified sudden death test; Sudden death test; Type I and type II censoring; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SERVICE LIFE; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

ASYMPTOTIC VARIANCE; CORNISH-FISHER EXPANSIONS; MODIFIED SUDDEN DEATH TEST (MSDT);

FATIGUE TESTING;

EID: 0032162644     PISSN: 00903973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1520/jte12692j     Document Type: Article

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