Reliability acceptance sampling plans for the Weibull distribution under accelerated Type-I censoring

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 11-20

  Kim, Min ^a   Yum, Bong Jin ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Acceleration factor; Consumer risk; Producer risk; Reliability acceptance sampling plan; Type I censoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 56049104043     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664760802382483     Document Type: Article

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