Reliability approximation using finite Weibull mixture distributions

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 241-251

  Bucar T ^a   Nagode, M ^a   Fajdiga, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Mixture model; Numerical modelling; Parameter estimation; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; EXTRAPOLATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EM ALGORITHMS; MIXTURE MODELS; NUMERICAL MODELING; WEIBULL MIXTURES;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 2142827114     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2003.11.008     Document Type: Article

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