Parametric estimation of reliability from incomplete and doubly censored data

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2395-2416

  Fernández, Arturo J ^a   Bravo, José I ^a   De Fuentes, Íñigo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Double random censoring; Parametric inference; Partially observable data; Reliability function

Indexed keywords

EID: 28244477074     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929908832427     Document Type: Article

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