Reliability sampling plans for lognormal distribution, based on progressively-censored samples

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 199-203

  Balasooriya, Uditha ^a   Balakrishnan, N ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SAMPLING; STATISTICS;

BEST LINEAR UNBIASED ESTIMATION; LOGNORMAL DISTRIBUTION; ORDER STATISTICS; PROGRESSIVELY CENSORED SAMPLES; RELIABILITY SAMPLING PLANS;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0034197608     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.877338     Document Type: Article

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