Accelerated life test sampling plans for the Weibull distribution under Type I progressive interval censoring with random removals

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 80, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 903-914

  Ding, Chang ^a   Yang, Chunyan ^a,b   Tse, Siu Keung ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Accelerated life tests; Generalized asymptotic variance; Maximum likelihood estimation; Sampling plan; Type I progressive interval censoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954678674     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650902834478     Document Type: Article

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