Satellite and satellite subsystems reliability: Statistical data analysis and modeling

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 94, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1718-1728

  Castet, Jean Francois ^a   Saleh, Joseph H ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood estimation; Reliability; Satellite; Satellite subsystem; Statistical analysis; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CRITICAL ATTRIBUTES; DATA SETS; EARTH ORBITING SATELLITES; FAILURE DATA; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATORS; NON-PARAMETRIC; NON-PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS; ON-ORBIT; PARAMETRIC FIT; REDUNDANCY ALLOCATION; RELIABILITY FUNCTIONS; SATELLITE RELIABILITY; SATELLITE SUBSYSTEM; SATELLITE SUBSYSTEMS; SCREENING PROGRAMS; SPACE INDUSTRY; SPACE SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DATA ANALYSIS; SUBSYSTEM TEST;

ESTIMATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SATELLITES; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 67949121854     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2009.05.004     Document Type: Article

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