An application of the EM algorithm to degradation modeling

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 2-13

  Ng, Tsan Sheng ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Change points; Degradation modeling; EM algorithm; Maximum likelihood estimation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

DEGRADATION MODELING; DEGRADATION RATE; EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHM;

DEGRADATION;

EID: 41449091560     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2008.916867     Document Type: Article

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