Analyzing step-stress accelerated life testing data using generalized linear models

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 589-598

  Lee, Jinsuk ^a   Pan, Rong ^b  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated life testing; Bayesian statistics; Inference; Reliability engineering

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED LIFE TESTING; BAYESIAN ESTIMATIONS; BAYESIAN STATISTICS; ESTIMATION METHODS; FAILURE DATA; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; JEFFREYS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO METHOD; NON-INFORMATIVE PRIOR; PARAMETER ESTIMATION METHOD; RELIABILITY ENGINEERING; STEP-STRESS; WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SECURITY OF DATA; STATISTICAL TESTS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 77952902762     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408170903459976     Document Type: Article

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