A two-phase approach for reliability and maintainability analysis of an industrial system

International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Garg, Harish ^a   Sharma, S P ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

least square; moment method; parameter estimation; Particle swarm optimization

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; DISTRIBUTION PARAMETERS; FAILURE DATA; GLOBAL SOLUTIONS; INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS; LEAST SQUARE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; META HEURISTIC ALGORITHM; STANDARD DEVIATION; SYSTEM DESIGNERS;

HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; METHOD OF MOMENTS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 84868155240     PISSN: 02185393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218539312500131     Document Type: Article

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