Testing for the validity of the assumptions in the exponential step-stress accelerated life-testing model

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2702-2709

  Wang, Bing Xing ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG GONGSHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON EMISSION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STATISTICS; STRESS ANALYSIS; TESTING;

ACCELERATED LIFE-TESTING; CUMULATIVE EXPOSURES; LIFE-TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; LINEAR FUNCTIONS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; NULL DISTRIBUTIONS; STEP STRESS; STRESS LEVELS; TEST PROCEDURES; TEST UNITS;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 61849133892     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2009.01.008     Document Type: Article

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