Optimal design of accelerated life tests for an extension of the exponential distribution

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 131, Issue , 2014, Pages 251-256

  Haghighi, Firoozeh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Accelerated life tests; An extension of the exponential distribution; Asymptotic variance; Cumulative exposure model; Fisher information matrix; Maximum likelihood estimation; Step stress test

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MONTE CARLO METHODS; TESTING; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

ACCELERATED LIFE TESTS; ASYMPTOTIC VARIANCE; CUMULATIVE EXPOSURE MODEL; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; STEP STRESS TESTS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 84953839023     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2014.04.017     Document Type: Article

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