Optimal stopping with exact confidence on remaining defects

Technometrics

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 397-406

  Dalal, S R ^a   Mallows, C L ^b  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b AVAYA LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Screening for Defects; Sequential Stopping Rules; Software Reliability.

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL TESTS;

EXPONENTIALS; NEW CLASSES; OPTIMAL STOPPING; SEQUENTIAL STOPPING RULES; STOPPING RULES; TESTING PHASE;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 55149087474     PISSN: 00401706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/004017008000000145     Document Type: Article

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