Optimal multiple constant-stress accelerated life tests for generalized exponential distribution

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1852-1865

  Guan, Qiang ^a   Tang, Yincai ^b   Fu, Jiayu ^b   Xu, Ancha ^c  

^a SANMING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c WENZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Accelerated life testing; D optimality; Fisher information; Generalized exponential distribution; V optimality

Indexed keywords

FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX;

ACCELERATED LIFE TESTING; D-OPTIMALITY; FISHER INFORMATION; GENERALIZED EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION; V-OPTIMALITY;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84898872830     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: 15324141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610918.2013.810257     Document Type: Conference Paper

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