Mean Residuial Life amd Its Association with Failure Rate

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 262-265

  Ghai, Gauri L ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bathtub shape; Failure rate; Mean residual life; Upside down bathtub shape

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037628928     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.799897     Document Type: Article

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