A Gamma-normal series truncation approximation for computing the Weibull renewal function

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 616-626

  Jiang, R ^a  

^a CHANGSHA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Gamma distribution; Normal distribution; Renewal density; Renewal function; Variance of number of renewals; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATION THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; RENEWAL DENSITY; WEIBULL RENEWAL FUNCTION;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 36849016872     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2007.03.026     Document Type: Article

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