On Zero-Failure Testing for Bayesian High-Reliability Demonstration

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability

Volumn 220, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 35-44

  Coolen, F P A ^a   Coolen Schrijner, P ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

dependent tasks; failures during testing; independent tasks; minimax criterion; non informative prior distribution; predictive probability; reliability test planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990405075     PISSN: 1748006X     EISSN: 17480078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/1748006XJRR3     Document Type: Article

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