Functional estimation for a multicomponent age replacement model

American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 135-156

  L’ecuyer, Pierre ^a   Martin, Benoit ^a   Vazquez Abad, Felisa J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Age replacement policies; Functional estimation; Maintenance models; Regenerative simulation; Split and merge tree

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; CORRELATION METHODS; FUNCTIONS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); THEOREM PROVING; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

AGE REPLACEMENT POLICIES; FUNCTIONAL ESTIMATION; MAINTENANCE MODELS; REGENERATION SIMULATION; SPLIT AND MERGE TREE;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 0033326555     PISSN: 01966324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01966324.1999.10737477     Document Type: Article

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