A survey on discrete lifetime distributions

International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 69-98

  Bracquemond, Cyril ^a   Gaudoin, Olivier ^a  

^a GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

Author keywords

Ageing; Discrete distributions; Failure rate; Lifetime; Nonrepairable systems; P lya distributions; Reliability models

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

DISCRETE LIFETIME DISTRIBUTIONS; FAILURE RATE; NONREPAIRABLE SYSTEMS; POLYA DISTRIBUTIONS; POLYA URN SCHEME; RELIABILITY MODELS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0038609585     PISSN: 02185393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218539303001007     Document Type: Article

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