Determination of prediction intervals for a future number of failures: A statistical and monte carlo approach

Brazilian Journal of Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 3 A, 2006, Pages 698-699

  De Menezes, Fortunato S ^a   Vivanco, Mário J Ferrua ^a   Sampaio, Luiz C ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF LAVRAS   (Brazil)

^b CENTRO BRASILEIRO DE PESQUISAS FÍSICAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Coverage Probability; Monte Carlo Simulation; Prediction Intervals; Sub sampling; Weibull Distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750273573     PISSN: 01039733     EISSN: 01039733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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