A multiple objective framework for planning accelerated life tests

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 58-63

  Tang, Loon Ching ^a   Xu, Kai ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Goal programming; Multiple objective optimization; Planning accelerated testing

Indexed keywords

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

ACCELERATED LIFE TEST; GOAL PROGRAMMING; MULTIPLE OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; STATISTICAL PRECISION;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 15544377405     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2004.841731     Document Type: Article

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