An iterative scheme for maximum likelihood estimation in software reliability modeling

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 246-256

  Okamura, H ^a   Watanabe, Y ^a   Dohi, T ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; maximum likelihood estimation; non homogeneous Poisson process; software reliability model

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FAULT DETECTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; RELIABILITY;

CONVERGENCE PROPERTIES; EM ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION PROBLEM; EXPECTATION - MAXIMIZATIONS; NON HOMOGENEOUS POISSON PROCESS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION METHOD; SOFTWARE FAULT DETECTION; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY MODELS;

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EID: 84954428543     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2003.1251047     Document Type: Conference Paper

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