On the maximum likelihood estimates for the Goel-Okumoto software reliability model

American Statistician

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 219-222

  Jeske, Daniel R ^a   Pham, Hoang ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Consistency of MLEs; NHPP models; Software failure rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035634114     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313001317098211     Document Type: Article

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