Estimating the turning point of a bathtub-shaped failure distribution

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1157-1166

  Bebbington, Mark ^a   Lai, Chin Diew ^a   Zitikis, Ričardas ^b  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Confidence intervals; Engineering; Modified Weibull; Reliability; Turning point

Indexed keywords

EID: 37249042742     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2007.04.031     Document Type: Article

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