Some properties of confidence bounds on reliability estimation for parts under varying stresses

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 7-17

  Zhao, Wenbiao ^a   Pan, Rong ^b   Aron, Alexander ^c   Mettas, Adamantios ^c  

^a American Express ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^c RELIASOFT CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated life test; Confidence interval; Cumulative damage model; Maximum likelihood estimation

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED LIFE TEST; CUMULATIVE DAMAGE MODEL; RELIABILITY ESTIMATION; WEIBULL FAILURE TIME DISTRIBUTION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DESIGN FOR TESTABILITY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; STRESSES; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 33644898804     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2005.858091     Document Type: Article

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