A new, reliable, and simple-to-use method for the analysis of a population of values of a random variable using the Weibull probability distribution: Application to acrylic bone cement fatigue results

Bio-Medical Materials and Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 349-355

  Janna, Sied ^a   Dwiggins, David P ^b   Lewis, Gladius ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Acrylic bone cement; Fatigue; Weibull relationship

Indexed keywords

BONE CEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; RECOVERY; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

ARCYLIC BONE CEMENTS; WEIBULL RELATIONS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ACRYLIC CEMENT;

ARTICLE; FATIGUE; FRACTURE; LABORATORY TEST; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZATION; RELIABILITY; TECHNIQUE;

ALGORITHMS; CEMENTATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 24944587492     PISSN: 09592989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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