Statistical Analysis of Marginal Count Failure Data

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 173-186

  Karim, Rezaul ^a   Yamamoto, Wataru ^a   Suzuki, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Marginal data; Multinomial distribution; Nonhomogeneous Poisson process (NHPP); Poisson approximation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035380028     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011300907152     Document Type: Article

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