A nonparametric approach to accelerated life testing

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 74, Issue 367, 1979, Pages 694-699

  Shaked, Moshe ^a   Zimmer, William J ^b   Ball, Clifford A ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated life testing; Asymptotic normality; Nonparametric Methods; Power rule model; Scale transformation; Time transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0542402292     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1979.10481672     Document Type: Article

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