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Accelerated Life Testing

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Methods of accelerated life testing are applied to several kinds of progressively censored data. This includes step-stress testing as well as progressive stress models.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

    N. Balakrishnan

  2. Institute of Statistics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Erhard Cramer

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Balakrishnan, N., Cramer, E. (2014). Accelerated Life Testing. In: The Art of Progressive Censoring. Statistics for Industry and Technology. Birkhäuser, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4807-7_23

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