References - Reliability and Survival Analysis
    

[1]    R.B. D'Agostino and M.A. Stephens (1986). Goodness-of-Fit Techniques, Marcel Dekker.

[2]    J.D. Kalbfleisch and R.L. Prentice (1980). The Statistical Analysis of Failure Time Data, John Wiley & Sons.

[3]    D. Kececioglu (1991). Reliability Engineering Handbook, Vols 1 and 2, Prentice Hall.

[4]    J.F. Lawless (1982). Statistical Models and Methods for Lifetime Data, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

[5]    W.Q. Meeker and L.A. Escobar (1998). Statistical Methods for Reliability Data, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

[6]    W. Murray, Ed. (1972). Numerical Methods for Unconstrained Optimization, Academic Press.

[7]    W. Nelson (1982). Applied Life Data Analysis, John Wiley & Sons.

[8]    W. Nelson (1985). "Weibull Analysis of Reliability Data with Few or No Failures," Journal of Quality Technology 17, 3, pp. 140-146.

[9]    R. Peto (1973). "Experimental Survival Curves for Interval-censored Data," Applied Statistics 22, pp. 86-91.

[10]   B.W. Turnbull (1976). "The Empirical Distribution Function with Arbitrarily Grouped, Censored and Truncated Data," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 38, pp. 290-295.

[11]   B.W. Turnbull (1974). "Nonparametric Estimation of a Survivorship Function with Doubly Censored Data," Journal of the American Statistical Association 69, 345, pp. 169-173.

[12]   J.T. Kvaloy and B.H. Lindqvist (1998). "TTT-based Tests for Trend in Repairable Systems Data," Reliability Engineering and System Safety 60, pp. 13-28.

[13]   W. Nelson (1990). Accelerated Testing, John Wiley & Sons.

[14]   S.E. Rigdon and A.P. Basu (2000). Statistical Methods for the Reliability of Repairable Systems, John Wiley & Sons.

[15]   W. Nelson (2003). Recurrent Events Data Analysis for Product Repairs, Disease Recurrences, and Other Applications, ASA-SIAM Seires on Statistics and Applied Probability.

[16]   F. Giesbrecht and A.H. Kempthorne (1966). "Maximum Likelihood Estimation in the Three-parameter Lognormal Distribution," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society B 38, pp. 257-264.

[17]   H.L. Harter and A.H. Moore (1966). "Local Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Parameters of the Three-parameter Lognormal Populations from Completed and Censored Samples," Journal of the American Statistical Association 61, pp. 842-851.

[18]   R.A. Lockhart and M.A. Stephens (1994). "Estimation and Tests of Fit for the Three-parameter Weibull Distribution," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 56, No. 3, pp. 491-500.

[19]   R.L. Smith (1985). "Maximum Likelihood Estimation in a Class of Non-regular Cases," Biometrika 72, pp. 67-90.

[20]   Robert B. Abernathy (1998). The new Weibull Handbook (second edition), pp. 4-1 – 4-11.