Order restricted inference for exponential step-stress models

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 132-142

  Balakrishnan, Narayanaswamy ^a   Beutner, Eric ^b,c   Kateri, Maria ^d  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cumulative exposure model; Hypothesis tests under order restrictions; Isotonic regression; Multiple step stress models; Order restricted maximum likelihood estimationType I and Type II censored sampling

Indexed keywords

BLOCK CODES; STRESS ANALYSIS;

CUMULATIVE EXPOSURE MODEL; HYPOTHESIS TESTS UNDER ORDER RESTRICTIONS; ISOTONIC REGRESSION; MULTIPLE STEP-STRESS MODELS; ORDER RESTRICTED MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATIONTYPE-I AND TYPE-II CENSORED SAMPLING;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 63149168914     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2008.2011686     Document Type: Article

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