A tampered failure rate model for step-stress accelerated life test

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1989, Pages 1627-1643

  Bhattacharyya, G K ^a   Soejoeti, Zanzawi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b GADJAH MADA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

and Phrases; Fisher information; maximum likelihood; partial acceleration; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 81255155615     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610928908829990     Document Type: Article

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