Uniqueness of the Maximum Likelihood Estimate of the Weibull Distribution Tampered Failure Rate Model

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2321-2338

  Wang, Rong Hua ^a   Fei, He Hang ^a  

^a SHANGHAI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood estimate; Monte Carlo simulation; Multiple step stress; TFR model; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

MULTIPLE STEP-STRESS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 0344119556     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-120025381     Document Type: Article

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