Component Reliability Estimations without Field Data

HKIE Transactions Hong Kong Institution of Engineers

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 10-17

  Kuan, Chen Shao ^a   Kin, Ho Tin ^a   Hua, Mao Bao ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Failure Data; Mean and Standard Deviation; Parameter Estimation; Weibull Distribution

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYNOMIALS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

FAILURE DATA; MEAN DEVIATION; STANDARD DEVIATION;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 35948991769     PISSN: 1023697X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1023697X.2007.10668080     Document Type: Article

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