Non-stationary Functional Series modeling and analysis of hardware reliability series: A comparative study using rail vehicle interfailure times

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 169-183

  Stavropoulos, Ch N ^a   Fassois, S D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN MODELS; FUNCTIONAL SERIES MODELS; NON-STATIONARY TIME SERIES MODELS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0033752589     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(00)00013-2     Document Type: Article

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