Estimating distributions with increasing failure rate in an imperfect repair model

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 53-67

  Kvam, Paul H ^a   Singh, Harshinder ^b   Whitaker, Lyn R ^c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brown Proschan model; Order restricted inference; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; HOSPITAL SERVICE; POWER SUPPLY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAINTENANCE; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 0036515443     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013570832286     Document Type: Article

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