Estimation of time-to-failure distribution derived from a degradation model using fuzzy clustering

Quality and Reliability Engineering International

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 261-267

  Wu, Shuo Jye ^a   Tsai, Tzong Ru ^a  

^a TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; FUZZY SETS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

NONLINEAR MIXED-EFFECT MODEL; OPTIMAL FUZZY CLUSTERING METHOD;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0034228173     PISSN: 07488017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1099-1638(200007/08)16:4<261::AID-QRE333>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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