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On the Comparison of two Software Relibility Estimators
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 July 2009
Abstract
Two different estimators of the failure rate of software are compared. It is shown that one tends to be better when the number of errors is small to moderate and the other when the number of errors is large.
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- Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , January 1988 , pp. 15 - 21
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- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988
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