Prediction of remaining life of power transformers based on left truncated and right censored lifetime data

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 857-879

  Hong, Yili ^a   Meeker, William Q ^a   McCalley, James D ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood; Random weighted bootstrap; Regression analysis; Reliability; Transformer maintenance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954789389     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/00-AOAS231     Document Type: Article

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