A mixture model for automobile warranty data

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 71-77

  Majeske, Karl D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Automobile warranty data; Field failure data; Maximum likelihood estimation; Mixture distributions

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILES; DEFECTS; ESTIMATION; MANUFACTURING DATA PROCESSING; QUALITY CONTROL; REPAIR;

MANUFACTURING DEFECTS;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0037843731     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(03)00073-5     Document Type: Article

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