On constant stress accelerated life tests terminated by Type II censoring at one of the stress levels

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 768-786

  Watkins, A J ^a   John, A M ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Constant stress accelerated life test; Design stress; Expected Fisher information; Log linear scale stress relationship; Maximum likelihood; Type II censoring; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 36049044499     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2007.02.013     Document Type: Article

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