Comprehensive review of estimating system-reliability confidence-limits from component-test data

Proceedings of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 56-60

  Tian, Xijin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytical models; Confidence limits; Monte Carlo simulation; System reliability

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL TESTS;

BUEHLER ORDERING METHOD; COMPONENT-TEST DATA; LOWER CONFIDENCE LIMIT; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SYSTEM RELIABILITY;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0036128807     PISSN: 0149144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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