Bootstrap confidence intervals for percentiles of reliability data for wood-plastic composites

Forest Products Journal

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 106-114

  Young, Timothy M ^a   Perhac, Diane G ^a,b   Guess, Frank M ^a   León, Ramon V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b SAS INSTITUTE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAP CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; BOOTSTRAP TECHNIQUES; BOOTSTRAPPING METHODS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; COST ANALYSES; EARLY FAILURES; MATERIAL PROPERTIES; MODULUS OF ELASTICITIES; MODULUS OF RUPTURES; NONPARAMETRIC; PARAMETRIC INFERENCES; PARAMETRIC METHODS; PLASTIC COMPOSITES; POOR RELIABILITIES; PRODUCT RELIABILITIES; RELIABILITY DATUMS; SAMPLE SIZES; SPECIFICATION LIMITS; TEST RESULTS; WARNING SIGNS;

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; COST ACCOUNTING; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; MILITARY OPERATIONS; RELIABILITY; WOOD PRODUCTS;

POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES;

ACCOUNTING; DATA PROCESSING; PLASTICIZED WOOD; POLYMER PAPER COMBINATIONS; RELIABILITY; WOOD PRODUCTS;

EID: 58049158940     PISSN: 00157473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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