Accelerated life tests at higher usage rates

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 53-57

  Yang, Guangbin ^a  

^a FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated life test; Compromise test plan; Sensitivity analysis; Usage effect; Usage rate

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ACCELERATED LIFE TEST; COMPROMISE TEST PLAN; LIFE DISTRIBUTION; USAGE EFFECT; USAGE RATE;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 15544376231     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2004.841730     Document Type: Article

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