Planning sequential constant-stress accelerated life tests with stepwise loaded auxiliary acceleration factor

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 140, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1968-1985

  Liu, Xiao ^a   Tang, Loon Ching ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Accelerated life test; Arrhenius model; Auxiliary acceleration factor; Bayesian optimal design; Fisher information; Hallberg Peck model; Sequential test design

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949273915     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2010.01.045     Document Type: Article

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