Asymptotic comparison between constant-stress testing and step-stress testing for type-I censored data from exponential distribution

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 43, Issue 10-12, 2014, Pages 2384-2394

  Han, David ^a   Ng, H K T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated life testing; Change point; Constant stress testing; Cumulative exposure model; Fisher information; Maximum likelihood estimation; Optimal allocation; Optimal regression design; Step stress testing; Type I censoring

Indexed keywords

FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ACCELERATED LIFE TESTING; CHANGE-POINTS; CONSTANT STRESS; CUMULATIVE EXPOSURE MODEL; FISHER INFORMATION; OPTIMAL ALLOCATION; STEP-STRESS TESTING; TYPE-I CENSORING;

TESTING;

EID: 84902506926     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2013.790451     Document Type: Conference Paper

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