Exact inference for a simple step-stress model from the exponential distribution under time constraint

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 251-274

  Balakrishnan, N ^a   Xie, Qihao ^a   Kundu, D ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Accelerated testing; Bootstrap method; Conditional moment generating function; Coverage probability; Cumulative exposure model; Exponential distribution; Maximum likelihood estimation; Order statistics; Step stress models; Tail probability; Type I censoring

Indexed keywords

BLOCK CODES; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; EXPERIMENTS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LOAD TESTING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STRESS ANALYSIS; TURBO CODES;

ACCELERATED TESTING; BOOTSTRAP METHOD; CONDITIONAL MOMENT GENERATING FUNCTION; COVERAGE PROBABILITY; CUMULATIVE EXPOSURE MODEL; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION; ORDER STATISTICS; STEP-STRESS MODELS; TAIL PROBABILITY; TYPE-I CENSORING;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 59849124532     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: 15729052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10463-007-0135-3     Document Type: Article

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