Calculating maximum likelihood estimates of reliability parameters using spreadsheets

Quality Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 43-53

  Lawson, John ^a,c   Meade, David ^b,d,e  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES   (United States)

^c ASQ   (United States)

^d ASQ ^*

^e AMD FAB 10 Product Engineering Group

Author keywords

Accelerated test; Censored data; Interval censored or readout data; Likelihood function; Log normal distribution; Nonhomogeneous Poisson process (NHPP); Spreadsheet program; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 27144469931     PISSN: 08982112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08982119808919210     Document Type: Article

References (4)

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2. Healy, J. D., Jain, A. K., and Bennett, J. M., Reliability prediction, in Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium 1996 Tutorial Notes, January 1996.
3. Lewis, E. E., An Introduction to Reliability Engineering, 2nd ed., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1996.
4. Tobias, P. and Trindade, D., Applied Reliability, 2nd ed., Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1995.