A general solution of the preventive maintenance problem when data are right-censored

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 91, Issue , 1999, Pages 251-261

  Shore, Haim ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Censored data; Distribution fitting; Maximum likelihood estimates; Preventive maintenance; Reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033462521     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1018901807531     Document Type: Article

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