Towards a theory of confidence intervals for system reliability

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 29-38

  Baxter, Laurence A ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary coherent structure function; chi square distribution; confidence interval; exponential family of distributions; likelihood ratio test; mean time to failure; reliability function; sufficient statistic

Indexed keywords

EID: 38249006897     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-7152(93)90118-3     Document Type: Article

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