Gamma distribution parameter estimation for field reliability data with missing failure times

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1161-1166

  Coit, David W ^a   Jin, Tongdan ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RELIABILITY; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; TIME TO FAILURE DISTRIBUTION;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 0034553001     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007648901444     Document Type: Article

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