Bayesian reliability demonstration for failure-free periods

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 81-91

  Coolen, F P A ^a   Coolen Schrijner, P ^a   Rahrouh, M ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Costs of testing; Multiple tasks; Non informative prior distributions; Zero failure tests

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; CORRELATION METHODS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY;

BAYESIAN RELIABILITY; MULTIPLE TASKS; NON-INFORMATIVE PRIOR DISTRIBUTION; ZERO-FAILURE TESTS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 10644247557     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2004.07.015     Document Type: Article

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