Designing acceptance sampling schemes for life testing with mixed censoring

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 597-612

  Chen, Jianwei ^a   Chou, Winlin ^b   Wu, Hulin ^a   Zhou, Haibo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

General loss function; Life inspection model; Mixed censoring; Sampling acceptant plan; The Bayes risk; The exponential distribution; The Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

GENERAL LOSS FUNCTION; LIFE INSPECTION MODEL; MIXED CENSORING; SAMPLING ACCEPTANT PLAN; THE BAYES RISK; THE EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ALGORITHMS; COSTS; DECISION THEORY; HAMILTONIANS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POLYNOMIALS; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; SALVAGING; SAMPLING; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 2342642825     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nav.20012     Document Type: Article

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