Estimating system and component reliabilities under partial information on cause of failure

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 29, Issue 1-2, 1991, Pages 75-85

  Guess, Frank M ^a   Usher, John S ^b   Hodgson, Thom J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

incomplete data; masked data; maximum likelihood estimation; reliability databases; Reliability estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 38249008904     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-3758(92)90123-A     Document Type: Article

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