Quantile-based reliability analysis

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 222-232

  Nair, N Unnikrishnan ^a   Sankaran, P G ^a  

^a Department of Physics   (India)

Author keywords

Lambda distributions; Quantile functions; Quantile based reliability concepts

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

LAMBDA DISTRIBUTIONS; MODELING AND ANALYSIS; QUANTILE FUNCTIONS; QUANTILE-BASED RELIABILITY CONCEPTS; STATISTICAL DATUMS;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

EID: 55549114009     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920802187430     Document Type: Article

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