Planning two or more level constant-stress accelerated life tests with competing risks

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 158, Issue , 2017, Pages 1-8

  Wu, Shuo Jye ^a   Huang, Syuan Rong ^a  

^a TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

A optimality; D optimality; Exponential distribution; Maximum likelihood estimation; Multiple failure modes; Variance optimality

Indexed keywords

FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; OPTIMIZATION; TESTING;

A-OPTIMALITY; D-OPTIMALITY; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; MULTIPLE FAILURE MODES; OPTIMALITY;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 84989878176     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2016.09.007     Document Type: Article

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