Single versus mixture Weibull distributions for nonparametric satellite reliability

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 295-300

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

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood estimation; Mixture distributions; Reliability; Satellite; Statistical analysis; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL DESIGN; EARTH ORBITING SATELLITES; FAILURE DATA; MIXTURE DISTRIBUTIONS; NON-PARAMETRIC; NON-PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS; NORMAL DISPERSION; ON-ORBIT; PARAMETRIC FIT; SATELLITE RELIABILITY; SPACE SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TECHNICAL LITERATURE;

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

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 73749084830     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2009.10.001     Document Type: Article

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