Some flexible families of intensities for non-homogeneous poisson process models and their Bayes inference

Quality and Reliability Engineering International

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 171-181

  Ryan, Kenneth J ^a  

^a MC 249 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Markov Chain Monte Carlo; Non homogeneous Poisson process; Power law process

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RELIABILITY THEORY;

POWER LAW PROCESSES;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

EID: 0037357783     PISSN: 07488017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qre.520     Document Type: Article

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