Analysis of reliability and warranty claims in products with age and usage scales

Technometrics

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 14-24

  Lawless, J F ^a   Crowder, M J ^b   Lee, K A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accelerated time model; Alternative time scale; Missing data; Random effect; Recurrent event

Indexed keywords

MISSING DATA; RANDOM EFFECTS; RECURRENT EVENTS; TIME MODEL; TIME-SCALES;

AUTOMOBILE EXHIBITIONS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 77950834695     PISSN: 00401706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/TECH.2009.0002     Document Type: Article

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