Bayesian Computation for Nonhomogeneous Poisson Processes in Software Reliability

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 91, Issue 434, 1996, Pages 763-773

  Kuo, Lynn ^a   Yang, Tae Young ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

General order statistics; Gibbs sampling; Intensity function; Metropolis algorithm; Model determination; Record value statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347771319     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1996.10476944     Document Type: Article

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