A unified confidence interval for reliability-related quantities of two-parameter Weibull distribution

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 365-378

  Yang, Zhenlin ^a   Xie, Min ^b   Wong, Augustine C M ^c  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analytical adjustment; Confidence interval; Mean time to failure; Percentile; Reliability; Type II censoring; Weibull to exponential transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248598199     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650701227452     Document Type: Article

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