Estimation of parameters for nonhomogeneous poisson process: software reliability with change-point model

Communications in Statistics Part B: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 623-635

  Chang, Yi Ping ^a  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Change point; Error detection rate; Least squares; Maximum likelihood; Nonhomogeneous poisson process; Software reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 31244431549     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/SAC-100105083     Document Type: Article

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