A sigmoid process for modeling warranty repairs

Proceedings - Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 326-330

  Yang, Guangbin ^a,b,c   Zaghati, Z ^a   Kapadia, Jimmy ^a,d,e  

^a FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United States)

^b IEEE   (United States)

^c ASQ   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI   (India)

Author keywords

Mean cumulative function; Mileage accumulation; Non homogeneous Poisson process; Sigmoid process; Warranty repair rate

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REPAIR; STATISTICAL METHODS; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICS;

MEAN CUMULATIVE FUNCTION; MILEAGE ACCUMULATION; NON-HOMOGENEOUS POISSON PROCESS; SIGMOID PROCESS; WARRANTY REPAIR RATE;

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE;

EID: 27744576055     PISSN: 0149144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/rams.2005.1408383     Document Type: Conference Paper

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