Beyond reliability, multi-state failure analysis of satellite subsystems: A statistical approach

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 311-322

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

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Maximum Likelihood Estimation; Multi state failure; Reliability; Satellite; Satellite subsystem; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

BLIND SPOTS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CRITICAL DESIGN; DATA SETS; DEGRADATION BEHAVIOR; EARTH ORBITING SATELLITES; ENGINEERING SYSTEMS; FAILURE BEHAVIORS; FULLY OPERATIONAL; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATORS; MULTI-STATE FAILURE; NON-PARAMETRIC; NON-PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS; PARTIAL FAILURE; SATELLITE SUBSYSTEMS; SPACE INDUSTRY; SPACE SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL APPROACH; WEIBULL;

ESTIMATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SAFETY FACTOR; SATELLITES; SECURITY OF DATA; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 75949121530     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2009.11.001     Document Type: Article

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