Design of sudden death tests for estimation of a weibull percentile

Journal of Testing and Evaluation

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 311-315

  McCool, John I ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence limits; Maximum likelihood; Pivotal functions; Progressive censoring; Sudden death tests

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE LIMITS; GROUP SIZE; LIFE-TESTS; PIVOTAL FUNCTIONS; PROGRESSIVE CENSORING; SUDDEN DEATH TESTS; SUDDEN DEATHS; WEIBULL; WEIBULL SHAPE; CONFIDENCE LIMIT; MA XIMUM LIKELIHOODS; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD; PIVOTAL FUNCTION; SUDDEN DEATH TEST;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; TESTING;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 68649086451     PISSN: 00903973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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