A critical look at the bathtub curve

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 125-129

  Klutke, Georgia Ann ^a   Kiessler, Peter C ^b   Wortman, M A ^a  

^a Texas A and M University   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bathtub curve; Burn in; Hazard function; Infant mortality; Mixture of distributions

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUALITY CONTROL;

HAZARD FUNCTION;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 0037333834     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2002.804492     Document Type: Article

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