The trend-renewal process for statistical analysis of repairable systems

Technometrics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 31-44

  Lindqvist, B H ^a   Elvebakk, G ^a   Heggland, K ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN COMPUTING CENTER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity; Likelihood inference; Poisson process; Recurrent event; Renewal process; Residual process

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REPAIR; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

HETEROGENEITY; LIKELIHOOD INFERENCE; POISSON PROCESS; RECURRENT EVENT; RENEWAL PROCESS; REPAIRABLE SYSTEM; RESIDUAL PROCESS;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 0037321815     PISSN: 00401706     EISSN: 15372723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/004017002188618671     Document Type: Article

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