Lifetime estimation using only failure information from warranty database

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 573-582

  Mesbahul Alam, M ^a   Suzuki, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Censoring distribution; Failure mode; Usage time distribution; Warranty claims

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL COSTS; AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; CENSORED DATA; CENSORING DISTRIBUTION; FAILURE INFORMATION; FIELD DATA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; INTEGRAL PART; LIFE-TIME DISTRIBUTION; LIFETIME ESTIMATION; LIFETIME PARAMETERS; PRODUCT LIFETIME; RELIABILITY CHARACTERISTICS; SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION; TIME DISTRIBUTION; WARRANTY CLAIMS; WARRANTY COVERAGE;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 77957946691     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2009.2026788     Document Type: Article

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