Life Distributions

1 December 1981

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Vol. R-30 (5), 457-460
https://doi.org/10.1109/tr.1981.5221168

Abstract

This paper presents expressions for two distributions. The first distribution can represent increasing, decreasing, and bathtub hazard rates whereas the second distribution can only represent increasing and decreasing hazard rates. Two parameter-estimating procedures are presented.

Keywords

HAZARDS
SHAPE
MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION
BISMUTH
PARAMETER ESTIMATION
DATA ANALYSIS
STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS
PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION
RELIABILITY THEORY

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

A Hazard Rate Model
IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 1979
Hazard Plotting for Incomplete Failure Data
Journal of Quality Technology, 1969

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