Markov chain simulation for estimating accelerated life model parameters

2007 Proceedings - Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, RAMS

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 214-219

  Azarkhail, Mohammadreza ^a   Modarres, Mohammad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated life test; Bayesian inference; Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED LIFE TEST; BAYESIAN INFERENCE; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO (MCMC) SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

EID: 34547278676     PISSN: 0149144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RAMS.2007.328060     Document Type: Conference Paper

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