Using the Weibull Distribution: Reliability, Modeling and Inference

Using the Weibull Distribution: Reliability, Modeling and Inference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-346

  McCool, John I ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; DATA MINING; PERSONNEL TRAINING; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EXTRACTING INFORMATION; GOODNESS-OF-FIT TESTING; INFERENTIAL METHODS; RELIABILITY ENGINEERING; SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; THREE-PARAMETER WEIBULL;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84865974231     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118351994     Document Type: Book

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