Corrigendum to “Evaluation and comparison of estimation methods for failure rates and probabilities”

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Corrigendum

Corrigendum to ‘‘Evaluation and comparison of estimation methods for failure rates and probabilities’’ [Reliability Engineering & System Safety 91(2) (2006) 209–221] Jussi K. Vaurioa,, Kalle E. Ja¨nka¨la¨b a

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There are two typographical errors in Section 2.4. PREB procedure, in article: The correct step 4 should be as follows:
2 n X 1 Ki m Pn 2 wi
m þ . 4v¼ T Ti 1
i¼1 wi i¼1

DOI of original article: 10.1016/j.ress.2005.01.001

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Step 11 should read as follows: 11 Prior moments: M c ¼ m þ d=T  , V c ¼ v þ d=ðy0 T  Þ.