A flexible Weibull extension

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 719-726

  Bebbington, Mark ^a   Lai, Chin Diew ^a   Zitikis, Ričardas ^b  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bathtub shape; IFR; IFRA; Maximum likelihood estimates; Reliability; Weibull type probability plot

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RELIABILITY THEORY;

BATHTUB SHAPE; DATA SETS; WEIBULL-TYPE PROBABILITY PLOTS;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33846351262     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2006.03.004     Document Type: Article

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