Uncertainty analysis of weibull estimators for interval-censored data

2007 Proceedings - Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, RAMS

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 292-297

  Vittal, Sameer ^a,b   Phillips, Randolph ^a,b  

^a GE ENERGY   (United States)

^b GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inspection data; Interval censored; Weibull

Indexed keywords

INSPECTION DATA; INTERVAL-CENSORED; MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; WEIBULL;

ALGORITHMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 34547294236     PISSN: 0149144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RAMS.2007.328067     Document Type: Conference Paper

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