Planning accelerated life tests under scheduled inspections for log-location-scale distributions

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 515-526

  Liu, Xiao ^a   Tang, Loon Ching ^b  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Accelerated life test; design of experiments; optimal spacing; scheduled inspections

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED LIFE TESTS; ASYMPTOTIC EQUIVALENCE; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; HIGH-DIMENSION OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; LOCATION-SCALE DISTRIBUTIONS; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTIMAL SPACING; USER INTERFACE DESIGNS;

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MATLAB; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TESTING; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

INSPECTION;

EID: 84878741326     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2013.2255792     Document Type: Article

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