A failure-time model for infant-mortality and wearout failure modes

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 377-387

  Chan, Victor ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bathtub hazard; Censored data; Limited failure population; Maximum likelihood

Indexed keywords

INFANT-MORTALITY MODES; WEAROUT FAILURE MODES;

FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 0033351977     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.814520     Document Type: Article

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