Bend strength of alumina ceramics: A comparison of Weibull statistics with other statistics based on very large experimental data set

Journal of the European Ceramic Society

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1221-1227

  Gorjan, Lovro ^a,b   Ambrožič, Milan ^c  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b Hidria Corporation   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Bend strength; Maximum likelihood method; Q Q plot; Weibull statistics

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA CERAMIC; BEND STRENGTH; BEST MATCH; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHODS; OTHER STATISTICS; Q-Q PLOT; SERIAL PRODUCTION; STATISTICAL EVALUATION; WEIBULL STATISTICS;

ALUMINA; STATISTICAL TESTS; STATISTICS;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84856586023     PISSN: 09552219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2011.12.010     Document Type: Article

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