Confidence intervals for reliability and quantile functions with application to NASA space flight data

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 591-601

  Heard, Astrid ^a   Pensky, Marianna ^b  

^a NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Generalized gamma distribution; Jeffreys non informative prior

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NASA; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM VARIABLES; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; GENERALIZED GAMMA DISTRIBUTIONS; INVERSE QUANTILE FUNCTIONS; JEFFREYS NON INFORMATIVE PRIOR;

SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 33947126204     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2006.884590     Document Type: Article

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