Optimal step-stress testing for progressively Type-I censored data from exponential distribution

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1782-1798

  Balakrishnan, N ^a   Han, Donghoon ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

A optimality; Accelerated life testing; C optimality; Change point; Conditional inference; Cumulative exposure model; D optimality; Fisher information; Maximum likelihood estimation; Order statistics; Progressive Type I censoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 59649096036     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2008.05.030     Document Type: Article

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