Weibull and inverse Weibull mixture models allowing negative weights

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 227-234

  Jiang, R ^a   Zuo, M J ^b   Li, H X ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; SYSTEM THEORY; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

INVERSE WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; K OUT OF N SYSTEM; MIXTURE MODEL; NEGATIVE WEIGHTS;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0033348436     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(99)00037-X     Document Type: Article

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