Simple plots improve software reliability prediction models

Quality Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 411-417

  Lawson, John S ^a   Wesselman, Craig W ^b   Scott, Del T ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ingenix Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Cumulative plot; Non homogeneous Poisson process (NHPP); Prequential likelihood ratio (PLR) plot

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY;

NONHOMOGENEOUS POISSON PROCESS (NHPP) MODEL;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0037348318     PISSN: 08982112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/QEN-120018040     Document Type: Article

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