Nonparametric predictive inference in reliability

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 185-193

  Coolen, F P A ^a   Coolen Schrijner, P ^a   Yan, K J ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Censored data; Competing risks; Interval probability; Nonparametric inference; Prediction; Replacement decisions; Survival function

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

NONPARAMETRIC INFERENCE;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0036838119     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(02)00162-X     Document Type: Article

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