On recent generalizations of the Weibull distribution

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 454-458

  Pham, Hoang ^a   Lai, Chin Diew ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING   (United States)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bathtub shape; Failure rate function; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY THEORY; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

FAILURE RATE FUNCTION; WEIBULL-RELATED LIFETIME MODELS;

FAILURE (MECHANICAL);

EID: 34548619891     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2007.903352     Document Type: Article

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