Exact inference for a simple step-stress model with competing risks for failure from exponential distribution under Type-II censoring

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 138, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 4172-4186

  Balakrishnan, N ^a   Han, Donghoon ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accelerated life testing; Competing risks; Conditional moment generating function; Confidence interval; Cumulative exposure model; Maximum likelihood estimation; Order statistics; Parametric bootstrap method; Step stress model; Tail probability; Type II censoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 49649087232     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2008.03.036     Document Type: Article

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