A simple goodness-of-fit test for the power-law process, based on the Duane plot

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 69-74

  Gaudoin, Olivier ^a   Yang, Bo ^b   Xie, Min ^c  

^a GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^b Engineering and Development Centre   (Singapore)

^c Dept of Indust/Systems Engineering ^*  (Singapore)

Author keywords

Duane plot; Goodness of fit test; Power law process; Regression analysis; Reliability growth; Repairable system; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; GRAPHIC METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

POWER-LAW PROCESS;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037333294     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2002.805784     Document Type: Article

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